I also find most of the "import typing" stuff to be clutter. I worked at a place that was heavily into adding typing to existing code, some of which was almost

I also find most of the "import typing" stuff to be clutter. I worked at a place that was heavily into adding typing to existing code, some of which was almost a decade old. They spent more than a few person years on that effort, and it's still going on. Not once did I find the additional typing useful in my actual day-to-day work.