Yes, obviously. There are outside factors why Python was chosen. I tend to work with whatever language is needed, and try to make the best of it. I've tried my

Yes, obviously. There are outside factors why Python was chosen. I tend to work with whatever language is needed, and try to make the best of it. I've tried mypy and pytype, and found both to be unsatisfying and hard to sell to the team (which as I mentioned, don't even like writing tests). If you're thinking "well, that's a culture/professionalism rather than a technical problem", you are absolutely right! But I'm left wondering if a language that was better at static typing would be better because, a- the checking would be mandatory, and b- it would be demonstrably more effective than Python's "optional" checking/hinting. At least it'd remove one variable from the problem. Or maybe not, who knows.