There was nothing stopping them from adding the typing module and syntax to Pyth...

Jasper_ on Sept 20, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Faster CPython 3.12 Plan

There was nothing stopping them from adding the typing module and syntax to Python 2. The issue was more or less the forced painful backwards compatibility break; in hindsight, that could have been avoided while giving us still a lot of new goodies.