[r_hanz]

I tend to agree, the flexibility that non-statically typed languages (i.e. Python) offer on smaller-scale projects (very) quickly diverges to chaos on larger-scale. With scale, rules and rigidity provide structure, without they provide verbosity and bureaucratic obstacles. Unfortunately “scale” is a gradient, not discrete, so there’s no “right answer” - hence the waste you experience. Ultimately, waste is in the eye of the beholder… “One person’s waste is another’s GDP.”