I agree with you; I've developed in Python for most of my career and a lot of Python criticism is malformed.

That being said, I'm starting all new large development work in Rust. Python is hard to reason about due to its dynamic nature in large codebases. And if I'm enabling strict typing everywhere, I might as well use a typed language and get a performance boost. Obviously, this is only because I'm the sole developer and using AI to improve productivity.

Work settings are completely different and one has to be a team player to find the language that works for everyone.