IMO the biggest issue with Python right now is the greater culture of code quality. This is probably biased from my recent exposure to ML code and ML packages.

IMO the biggest issue with Python right now is the greater culture of code quality. This is probably biased from my recent exposure to ML code and ML packages. But there is a disgusting level of disregard for basic code practices in even fairly well funded libraries. Dead code, commented-out code, unused variables, unused imports, inconsistent quote types, unreadable variable names, no attempt to use type hints, etc. Granted, the code I see from more web and ops focused teams is miles better. But I worry the collective is not where it should be.