FUCK. Triggers me. Just got let go from a place that had this problem and wouldn’t let me make any changes whatsoever. I didn’t even push hard.

I did this once

I was generating a large fake dataset that had to make sense in certain ways. I created a neat thing in C# where you could index a hashmap by the type of model it stored, and it would give you the collection storing that data.

This made obtaining resources for generation trivial

However, it made figuring out the order i needed to generate things an effing nightmare

Of note, a lot of these resource "Pools" depended on other resource Pools, and often times, adding a new Pool dependency to a generator meant more time fiddling with the Pool standup code

Side-rant:
I rarely write Python code. One reason for that is the lack of type safety.
Whenever I'm automating something and try to use some 3rd party Python library, it feels like there's a good 50/50 chance that front and center in its API is some method that takes a dict of strings. What the fuck. I feel like there's perhaps also something of a cultural difference between users of scripting languages and those of backend languages.

What you described sounds so much worse though holy shit.