after 5-6 languages and coming back to Python I would say the worst things are - large and inconsistent stdlib api, - extremely wordy but somehow still vague

after 5-6 languages and coming back to Python I would say the worst things are - large and inconsistent stdlib api, - extremely wordy but somehow still vague documentation - overwrought build/packaging system (although tooling has improved) - endless runtime gotchya debugging in production - almost all the baggage of OO boilerplate but none of the benefits of type-checking. - half-baked functional paradigms