Depends on the type system. Some type systems have a lot of ceremony around types and force you into contrived abstractions. For instance, in Scala, if you wanted to have a function that can print a name of an animal or person, you could overload the function, create a "nameable" trait and have both Person and Animal implement it, or create a union type.

In typescript you could just write

sayHello(thing: {name: string}) { ... }

or a union type

sayHello(thing: Person | Animal)

or even Pick out a group of parameters of both Person and Animal

sayHello(thing: Pick<Person | Animal, "name">)

Same with Omit

Types in typescript are incredibly flexible and useful despite being discarded at compile time. I hope python goes down this route.