Kinda started using that with polars, force the scan/read schema as string, and down the road cast as the necessary type when needed. I'm calling it "just in time" data cleaning.
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make everything a string then cast all data every time you want to use that data in a variable.
If it's not getting used in a mathematical function, I'm making it a string