> I've never found myself wanting a type checker

Do you still write type hints, but not check them? Or just use dynamic typing as in Python 2?

Actually, I guess the first case is really type-hints-as-comments, so isn't substantially different from the second.

> I've been using Python for right about 20 years now

Either way, I've found it quite common among long-time Python users to stick with Python's traditional dynamic typing, whereas newcomers to the language tend to really dislike it in favour of strict static typing. (One exception is GvR himself, who seems to be very pro-type-checking.)

As the second group continue to add increasingly complex typing features to the language, I wonder if Python is becoming less desirable for those in the first group.