I would say it's much more powerful than switch-case, but it's only moderately more ergonomic than elif. The reason for the former being that switch-case only e

I would say it's much more powerful than switch-case, but it's only moderately more ergonomic than elif. The reason for the former being that switch-case only ever checks exact equivalency; if you need to do anything slightly more nuanced, you have to bail out to something more flexible.