At the very least, I really wish all these benchmarks would bubble sort e.g. ugly Python dicts with varying key and value types, rather than ints all the time.

At the very least, I really wish all these benchmarks would bubble sort e.g. ugly Python dicts with varying key and value types, rather than ints all the time. That kind of thing's what I think of Python as particularly useful for. That it's harder to write in any other language is unfortunately exactly what makes it the important thing to test.