Somewhat agree. In fact for a recent project I began writing in JS for this reason but quickly ran into opinions from team mates with no JS exposure asking "Why

Somewhat agree. In fact for a recent project I began writing in JS for this reason but quickly ran into opinions from team mates with no JS exposure asking "Why wouldn't you use Python?", so I did. But, I think JS as a Python replacement is problematic because: 1. Some probably usable version of Python is already on your computer. Not true for JS. 2. Forced use of async in JS library code, even though Node.js doesn't require it.