Awe should do, can you make a reproduction and create an issue?
Aif you create a discussion in the zod, please post it here! interesting edge-case
AI also want to move towards using branded strings more so I'm very curious about this
AI don't really agree with the motivation there since a branded type doesn't really mean anything on either end
AAnd it'd make sense to me that'd be okay to enforce on the input too & that you'd have to explicitly typecast to get though the validator, otherwise it's just loose
AZod likes strictness, doing it on both ends seems better to me
AWe're unlikely to do this on trpc's side as we're not tied to zod