TypeError: Descriptors cannot not be created directly

[jacob-alford]

I'm trying to run electrum-vtc locally, and I run into the following error:

TypeError: Descriptors cannot not be created directly.

The internet elsewhere suggests that I downgrade protobuf to an earlier version, however when I do I run into:

SyntaxError: multiple exception types must be parenthesized

I'm running python 3.10.9 on an M2 Mac for reference. Any ideas on how to fix this?