Sure, runtime validation is useful – at the boundaries of your domain! After that your type checker should ensure your data has the shape your code expects.
The boundaries of my domain is everywhere, because stuff are built everywhere. I'm sure I am a bad dev, yet prebuilding all possibles objects I might need everytime I receive an input sounds stupid at best
(btw, this post sounds a lot like "if it compiles, it works", not gonna do this, especially in Python)