Are you suggesting that you prefer to do the type validation upon execution?

No. But I would like them to actually be done! If you just write some Python code and put type hints in it and don’t do anything else then those types are not checked at all. It requires some set up and a third party tool to use them properly.

It is a bit more complicated than that. Here’s a quote

That quote is exactly what I was saying. It does not require any particular processing or type hints.

Type checkers can and do differ in whether they accept a particular piece of code.