I misread. We agree.
Mixed. We don't really vote anyway.
There is no code yet. Code review and testing is where things get firmer.
My personal stance right now is that I'd like to see catalog-decared typed variables. I would prefer them to be transactional and would at least oppose anything that didn't allow future room for that capability. I'd prefer that non-transactional vars be clearly declared as such.
In the end though... I'm not the one implementing it. I can have some influence through the code review process. But it's whoever steps up with a proposed implementation that has the biggest say. The rest of us can say yes or no to some degree... but nobody can make someone else implement something they don't want.