You are probably right, but there are differences. Languages like Go and Rust are much easier to get started with since they have better tooling, and more importantly, the tooling has a smaller and more regular surface. This is immensely important. Granted, they occasionally have unnecessary and stupid quirks, but they tend to be small (in terms of cognitive footprint) and contained.
In my neck of the woods, Python is the major source of time spent trying to get other people's code to run on my machine. The path of least resistance for Python developers tends to produce code that requires you to go through an easter egg hunt to make it run outside the original author's machine.
Yes, you could write Python utilities that are easy to install and run, but people don't. And the last bit of that sentence is the one that actually counts. "Could have" doesn't actually count in an engineering context. If the consumer has to assemble and repair software before getting it to run, the developer isn't being very professional.
In my neck of the woods, Python is the major source of time spent trying to get other people's code to run on my machine. The path of least resistance for Python developers tends to produce code that requires you to go through an easter egg hunt to make it run outside the original author's machine.
Yes, you could write Python utilities that are easy to install and run, but people don't. And the last bit of that sentence is the one that actually counts. "Could have" doesn't actually count in an engineering context. If the consumer has to assemble and repair software before getting it to run, the developer isn't being very professional.