The majority of the people in the world that can benefit from writing computer programs for the most various purposes are not professionals, nor desire to be.

The majority of the people in the world that can benefit from writing computer programs for the most various purposes are not professionals, nor desire to be. Computation is a powerful tool wide incredibly wide applications, and Python makes this tool accessible to humanity in general. That is no small thing. Macros, types, threads, interfaces, lambdas, tail calls, etc. are incredibly niche interests, and perfectly unnecessary for the vast majority of computations that people would like to perform.