Sure, but you lose the representation of the developer’s intention that way. I would be pretty pissed off if I inherited a project and the schema was all ANYs.

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masklinn an hour ago | parent | next [-]

The intent of ANY is obviously that the values be flexible. That’s why it’s there if you need it.

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drdexebtjl an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

“I intended this to be an integer but it could really be anything” is not very useful.

	▲	poidos an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Sure it is. If you encounter something that’s not an int, that could be a signal you have a bug in your writers. Or in the source of the data. That’s useful information compared to “oh, I have some ints and some strings, that’s ANY, everything is ok.”