To make mypy strict enough to compare your dev experience to a typed language, you have to declare all sorts of configurations, otherwise there are huge swaths of things it’ll allow compared to most typed languages.

I use below, and only when necessary use ignore comment pragmas when third party libraries are not typed.

    #? message format settings
    show_column_numbers = true
    show_error_codes = true
    #? strictness settings
    disallow_any_unimported = true
    disallow_any_expr = true
    disallow_any_decorated = true
    disallow_any_explicit = true
    disallow_any_generics = true
    disallow_subclassing_any = true
    disallow_untyped_calls = true
    disallow_untyped_defs = true
    disallow_incomplete_defs = true
    disallow_untyped_decorators = true
    no_implicit_optional = true
    warn_redundant_casts = true
    warn_unused_ignores = true
    warn_return_any = true
    warn_unreachable = true
    strict_equality = true
    strict = true