Definitely, but then it wouldn't be Python. One of the core principles of Python's design is to be extremely dynamic, and that anything can change at any time.
There are many other, pretty good, strictly dynamically typed languages which work just as well if not better than Python, for many purposes.
And when Python is a mainstream language on top of which large, globally known websites, AI tools, core system utilities, etc are built, we should give up the purity angle and be practical.
Even the new performance push in Python land is a reflection of this. A long time ago some optimizations were refused in order to not complicate the default Python implementation.
1. I doubt that many Python devs are reading my random comments on a random site.
2. I doubt that those Python devs that stumble upon my comments care about them.
I'm a nobody on the internet. In the past I would have commented that maybe I'm a dog, but now it's fashionable to be an AI agent.
> Most engineers never get to choose the programming language used for 90% of their professional projects.
If it was up to me, there are plenty of languages to choose from that meet my technical needs just fine, but the political friction of getting all of my colleagues (most of whom are not software engineers at all) to use my language of choice is entirely insurmountable. Therefore, I have a vested interested in seeing practical changes to Python. The existence or invention of other languages is irrelevant.