Empirically, I have used the current accepted way to do lazy imports (import statement inside a function) before AI coding was even a mainstream thing, for personal code that sometimes needs a heavy import and sometimes doesn’t.
The lazy statement would be an improvement as it allows one to see all the imports at the top where you expect them to be.
The lazy statement would be an improvement as it allows one to see all the imports at the top where you expect them to be.