macOS (in its NeXT-based lineage) has always come with many scripting languages (php, perl, python, ruby, applescript, awk, *sh, etc) as part of a standard unix

macOS (in its NeXT-based lineage) has always come with many scripting languages (php, perl, python, ruby, applescript, awk, *sh, etc) as part of a standard unixy setup, even before Apple themselves made use of them per se in the system. While they make use of Python currently, it's there also just to enable whatever things a user or a 3rd party may build.