But that’s the whole point of it. You have the option to get that speed when it really matters, but can use the easier dynamic features for the very, very many use cases where that’s appropriate.
This is an eternal conversation. Years ago, it was assembler programmers laughing at inefficient C code, and C programmers replying that sometimes they don’t need that level of speed and control.
You are correct. However it took about only about 10 years for C compilers to beat hand assembly (for the average programmer), thus proving the naysayers wrong.
Meanwhile Python is just as slow today as it was 30 years ago (on the same machine).