If the language is limited to only single and shallow inheritance, then super() becomes a syntactic convenience that saves everyone the burden of spelling out the inheriting class. But in Python, even if your code emulates these constraints, you lose in clarity from using super() because someone reading your source has to wonder if or why it was specifically needed, since its main purpose is to resolve the kinds of conflicts that arise in complex inheritance scenarios (diamond, problematic cycles, and such). So, to need it is to make your code complicated. To not need it while using it, is to lose in clarity.
If the language is limited to only single and shallow inheritance, then super() becomes a syntactic convenience that saves everyone the burden of spelling out the inheriting class. But in Python, even if your code emulates these constraints, you lose in clarity from using super() because someone reading your source has to wonder if or why it was specifically needed, since its main purpose is to resolve the kinds of conflicts that arise in complex inheritance scenarios (diamond, problematic cycles, and such). So, to need it is to make your code complicated. To not need it while using it, is to lose in clarity.