I believe that we should keep typing in the stdlib and introduce a new "bleeding-edge" or "early access" version of typing that is available on PyPI and becomes merged into stdlib with every major release of CPython. We could call it typing2 or future_typing or somehow.

People interested in new hot features would use something like:

from typing2 import NewType, Type

BTW it could have been a better way of adding typing.Text than introducing it in Python 3.5.2.

I think having typing in the stdlib is important for the following reasons:

The default semantics of functions annotations is now type hints, so the module necessary for writing type hints should be in the core language distribution
You've mentioned that you wouldn't object if new stdlib modules included type hints. It won't be possible without the typing module in the stdlib
With typing in the stdlib people can rely on the stable API for type hinting universally available for Python 3.5+. It helps making type hinting more widespread

Remove typing.py from the stdlib? #278

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