> There are two types of people who use python: those who understand statistics and those who write python. I’m happy that python basically took over the role once filled by matlab […]

This exactly! Worded charitably, but accurately.

Python is a messy and complex language, full of historical baggage and non-essential machinery. I’ve been working in it for many years, so I’m not new or unfamiliar to it… But I know what a clean simple language looks like (eg.: clojure), so I have much less patience for unnecessary complexity now.

It may be arguably-better than some other popular languages (or MATLAB), but it's easy to find an objectively much better high-level language.