I wouldn't jump on it except for the number of times I've been discussing this online and people completely seriously counter "Python is a fairly slow language"

I wouldn't jump on it except for the number of times I've been discussing this online and people completely seriously counter "Python is a fairly slow language" with "But it's popular!" Fuzzy one-dimensional thinking that classifies languages on a "good" and "bad" axis is quite endemic in this industry. And for those people, you can counter "X is slow" with "X has good library support", and disprove "X lacks good tooling" with "But X has a good type system", because all they hear is that you said something is "good" but they have a reason why it's "bad", or vice versa. Keep an eye out for it.