What kind of feature are you missing? Where do you notice a shortcoming of PTB?
Since mypy 0.990, implicit optional types are disabled by default. Maybe it is a good time to switch to explicit optional types, if so I can work on this.
Future reference: https://github.com/hauntsaninja/no_implicit_optional
Describe the solution you'd like
Switch to explicit optional types (e.g. def foo(s: str | None = None))
Describe alternatives you've considered
No response
Additional context
No response