Yes. But people do use (or more like, misuse) Python for different things such as large systems. In cases like that, others still scream about "pythonicity" and

Yes. But people do use (or more like, misuse) Python for different things such as large systems. In cases like that, others still scream about "pythonicity" and "idiomaticness" just for the sake of language policing, even if those guidelines make zero sense. I had the misfortune of using Python for.... larger systems than it was intended for, and the code reviewer basically screamed at me for daring to use staticmethods instead of free-floating functions. Even though it was an internal implementation detail and it was exactly the point that the function itself shouldn't be discoverable if you import the file. But convention and being pythonic trumps everything... So yes, I think that people who criticise others for not writing "idiomatic" code just want to nitpick most of the time.