MAINT: [_async_]start_kernel should only take kwarg only. #905
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The base cases only take **kw, so you can't have subclass also take positional arguments.
It is problematic to allow positional arguments, as is someone code against a subclass it is not swappable for another one.
The latest version of jupyter_server also seem to sometime have subclasses that have the signature with kernel_name first and other with kernel_id first, with is a recipe for disaster if we don't make it kwarg only.
This is I belove not caught by mypy because of multiple reasons: