my take:

The language is A ok.

It's way better JS, and at the time it was a breath of fresh air. It was NodeJS before JS, and it was much better than node will be (I scratched out that "never").

I do recall Guido's claims about developers cognition - stating that (quoting from memory) a person can only hold up to 50k lines of code in their head, and Py can have way more code in that dimension that C or Java, but that's just stupid.

But similarly to JS it's heavily misused.