That was partially the author's point. However, he came from the other direction: If you want a statically typed language with powerful asynchronous tooling the

That was partially the author's point. However, he came from the other direction: If you want a statically typed language with powerful asynchronous tooling then maybe Python is not the right choice. There are already languages that are great at that. So why make Python that's already great at being Python less good at being Python and instead into something that other languages are already great at?