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If you stick to this subset of python
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To me, it just generally seems like someone is trying to tack on functionality in ways that are hard to utilize, as opposed to just writing code in the first place, the very same thing that you see happen with generics, deeply nested inheritance and other "tricks" which are supposed to make one's life easier but do the opposite in practice in many cases.
Personally, i enjoy libraries like Typer (https://typer.tiangolo.com/) for Python and think that it has plenty of use cases, but i've been hurt far too many times by similar functionality in non-trivial cases in every single language that i've used that supports something like that, so at best i'm guarded about utilizing them.
Java rant: But perhaps that's just because Java is a major source of pain for me in that regard. To give you a concrete example: i'm migrating Spring to Spring boot and someone used Jersey instead of RESTEasy as their JAX-RS implementation and now i need to transpose hundreds of API endpoint definitions (for example @GET to @GetMapping with bunches of parameters). If it were just Java code, i could probably use some clever refactoring in it with the help of my IDE, but now i'd have to figure out where the annotations come from, create a stub to replace them, call the proper stuff from within them and hope it works, unless the reflection that's used by them breaks. Not only that, but debugging is kind of hard when the source code and the actual logic behind said annotation is hidden below dozens of layers of Eldritch indirection and you have no chances of feasibly finding all of that stuff out.