I have no qualms with the OPs comment other than the same criticisms I highlighted could be applied to just about any other language in a similarly vague contex

I have no qualms with the OPs comment other than the same criticisms I highlighted could be applied to just about any other language in a similarly vague context. So what justice do those criticisms do if we're not being specific about them? For example > Package management is a disaster > The interpreter is slow > The syntax is not expressive Is your particular experience with pip bad? Or is it poetry/conda or another upstart project? Are you working with a monorepo? In what use case is the interpreter slow? The syntax is not expressive (for what)? My point about tooling/utility is that how you use a tool matters a lot (and maybe I didn't express that in my original reply).