I don't think it's the case that a language needs all of its syntactic sugar to be intuitive or obvious to the initiate. These are things you will acquire over

I don't think it's the case that a language needs all of its syntactic sugar to be intuitive or obvious to the initiate. These are things you will acquire over time as you either search the internet for "how do I do X" or you read other people's code that exemplifies them. Though I'd argue that anybody who adopts the "pythonista" label is likely to be somebody who looks through version release notes for these kinds of things. I certainly do!