I learned C++ before learning python as well and python felt like a breath of fresh air.

At first I thought it was because of the lack of types. But in actuality the lack of types was a detriment for python. It was an illusion. The reason why python felt so much better was because it had clear error messages and a clear path to find errors and bugs.

In C++ memory leaks and seg faults are always hidden from view so EVEN though C++ is statically typed, it's actually practically less safe then python and much more harder to debug.

The whole python and ruby thing exploding in popularity back in the day was a trick. It was an illusion. We didn't like it more because of the lack of typing. These languages were embraced because they weren't C or C++.

It took a decade for people to realize this with type hints and typescript. This was a huge technical debate and now all those people were against types are proven utterly wrong.