Feature description

We have a lot of places in the codebase where Pylance has been complaining. I'm going through most of the codebase and cleaning up everything I can (with the exception of anything storage-related, since that's about to be overhauled)

Use case

Our code should be as clean and robust as possible

Acceptance Criteria

There's no hard-and-fast acceptance criteria for this, other than having Pylance complain less.

Proposed solution

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Alternatives considered

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Implementation details

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Potential Impact

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Additional context

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Contribution

Yes, I can create a PR for this feature.