Test if a type conforms to a non-existential protocol

In order to do what you want, we’d need somethihg like dynamic dispatch for protocol extension methods (Dynamically-dispatched protocol extension members).

There are iffy workarounds, like creating a closure-based type eraser with overloads for initialisation, but then you’d still need to construct it with a concrete type (it wouldn’t work in generic code).

There simply is no way today to conditionally downcast to a refined protocol if that protocol contains associated types.