Pydantic, dataclasses and mypy help a lot, I don't get what you mean by incentivizing strings and dictionaries for everything, that definitely doesn't sound lik

Pydantic, dataclasses and mypy help a lot, I don't get what you mean by incentivizing strings and dictionaries for everything, that definitely doesn't sound like good modern Python. The go-to-definition functionality is available in any modern editor, it sounds like yours isn’t set up properly.