More resilient type stats for steep ignore comments

[marcotc]

What does this PR do?

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[dd-octo-sts]

👋 Hey @marcotc, please fill "Change log entry" section in the pull request description.

If changes need to be present in CHANGELOG.md you can state it this way

**Change log entry**

Yes. A brief summary to be placed into the CHANGELOG.md

(possible answers Yes/Yep/Yeah)

Or you can opt out like that

**Change log entry**

None.

(possible answers No/Nope/None)

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