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Yeah, I just don't buy this. It says nothing. This is the bottom-barrel suggestion most people bring up, and there's more to simplifying codebases than "strict types."

What in this <2k LOC file suggests strict types help anything whatsoever? It's not massive. It's large, but fold this and it immediately becomes more readable. Any attempts to simplify this would simply be reasoning about it differently.



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