Comparing enum cases while ignoring associated values

Using Swift
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My only use of Sourcery is to auto-generate a subtype on my associated value enums so I can do simple == and != checks for their case names. I would love to see this feature exist in Swift.

It should be easy to do things like the following without resorting to weird quirks or a bunch of extra code

enum State {
  case ready
  case loading(reasons: [String])
}

let stateA = State.ready
let stateB = State.loading(reasons: ["ReasonA", "ReasonB"])

print(stateA.case == stateB.case) //false

if stateA.case != .loading { 
  // do something
}

There are a bunch of hiccups when writing if case let something = .enumCase (including the inability to use != with case let).
I too would love to see it simplified!

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