It was true recently enough ago that the people writing Python code professionally were introduced to Python from a scripting entrypoint. For non-programmers,

It was true recently enough ago that the people writing Python code professionally were introduced to Python from a scripting entrypoint. For non-programmers, I think it's definitely still true that "scripting" is their primary use case for Python, and when those non-programmers shift into software development jobs because they have "3 years experience" with Python, they bring all of their bad habits with them.