I think these criticisms are valid (at least for Cython 2) and they are well explained. But I don't see this article mention the main benefit of Cython from my

I think these criticisms are valid (at least for Cython 2) and they are well explained. But I don't see this article mention the main benefit of Cython from my experience, which is the speed increase you can get from Pythonic code annotated with a few types. The suggested alternatives don't really address that same use case.