I wonder if it would make sense to allow _ for all positional parameter names.

That would be reasonably consistent with the interpreter (although not with stub/function headers), for example this is legal:
>>> (_, _) = (5, 6)

After a closer look `*args` and `**kwargs` are also nuisance argument names (thanks to Pradeep for pointing this out)
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