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Small note: Python's standard dict has been ordered since ~3.7

E.g. https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2017-December/1...

Looking for feedback here. How many programmers actually know this and expect it? Is it worth the extra complexity when translating to static languages which don't provide this guarantee?

From an implementation perspective, doing it for the ordereddict special case is much simpler.

I think you can get away with keeping it unordered for 95% of the code. But the remaining 5% are going to fail in very confusing, and possibly inconsistent ways.

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