```jl julia> A = SA[1 2; 3 4] 2×2 SMatrix{2, 2, Int64, 4} with indices SOneTo(2)×SOneTo(2): 1 2 3 4 julia> hermitianpart(A) 2×2 Hermitian{Float64, Matrix{Float64}}: 1.0 2.5 2.5 4.0 ``` The problem is that the [`LinearAlgebra` implementation](https://github.com/JuliaLang/LinearAlgebra.jl/blob/37c86b840cb82c67c877cdeb59ad473708f58341/src/symmetric.jl#L1001) calls `copy_similar`.