I agree, it needed everyone to step back and make choices as to direction. Instead, we got the "stone soup" where everyone wanted their favorite feature from s

I agree, it needed everyone to step back and make choices as to direction. Instead, we got the "stone soup" where everyone wanted their favorite feature from some other language added in. You'll see this in most languages, where people want something from another language they are more comfortable with. Privately, I refer to this as the California problem: people move away from California (or anywhere else really, I am picking on California) but then bring all of the baggage and voting habits that made California unpalatable to them eventually. Python is especially vulnerable to this because it conflicts with "There should be one -– and preferably only one –- obvious way to do it." The more features added to the language, the more ways there are to do something, and we then must invent new idioms and lean on "convention."