They're a good tool for sure, but I take issue with your characterization. It's not "laziness" or "lack of understanding" that makes them ill-suited for python,

They're a good tool for sure, but I take issue with your characterization. It's not "laziness" or "lack of understanding" that makes them ill-suited for python, but just that they're too expressive for the goals python seeks to fulfill. I suspect that people's aversion to manual memory management is more an expression of that semantic mismatch rather than some kind of reveling in their own stupidity.