imports run arbitrary Python code, making them faster is the same as making every other language feature faster
Can you show me a profile that demonstrate the slowness is because imports are running large amounts of arbitrary Python code? Maybe they shouldn't do that. Maybe libraries should be pushed to not run expensive arbitrary code execution at import time.
What I want is for imports to not suck and be slow. I’ve had projects where it was faster to compile and run C++ than launch and start a Python CLI. It’s so bad.