Type hints are nice, until you have to interact with a library that isn't type-hinted, and then it very quickly becomes a mess.
I don't know how other IDEs behave, but VScode + the Python extensions try to infer the missing hints and you end up with beauties such as `str | None | Any | Unknown`, which of course are completely meaningless.
Even worse, the IDE marks as an error some code that is perfectly correct, because it somehow doesn't match those nonsensical hints. And so it gives you the worst of both worlds: a lot of false positives that you quickly learn to ignore, dooming the few actual type errors to irrelevance, because you'll ignore them anyways until they blow up at runtime, just as it'd happen without typehints.
I don't know how other IDEs behave, but VScode + the Python extensions try to infer the missing hints and you end up with beauties such as `str | None | Any | Unknown`, which of course are completely meaningless.
Even worse, the IDE marks as an error some code that is perfectly correct, because it somehow doesn't match those nonsensical hints. And so it gives you the worst of both worlds: a lot of false positives that you quickly learn to ignore, dooming the few actual type errors to irrelevance, because you'll ignore them anyways until they blow up at runtime, just as it'd happen without typehints.