Original asker here, thank you for this comment. Lots of people are arguing about the pure merits of the languages, but the gap in usage IMO is way too big to b

Original asker here, thank you for this comment. Lots of people are arguing about the pure merits of the languages, but the gap in usage IMO is way too big to be explained by “Python has only one way of doing something” or “Python is multi-paradigm.” Understanding that Python was established years before Ruby was being discussed answers the question of why Python is preferred for many use cases.