> who doesn't just toss args in a dict?

Me? Args in a dict, or worse, `**kwargs` chained through multiple functions, are awful to deal with.

I'm really curious about your stance. If anything, typing has gotten easier and better over 20 years. Types used to be verbose, you had to type out all characters, compiler messages were terrible. Now, type systems are better, inferred, flexible and structural subtyping is great. Type checkers are almost real-time. Autocomplete saves me keystrokes. Errors are helpful.

I used to hate types, 10 years ago, writing Java in Notepad++. Now I write python w/ mypy, go, and rust in Intellij, with lots of plugins to speed up autocomplete, and lint in real time.