If you never use anyone elses packages and only stick to vanilla python available on your system it's a great learning language. Many universities still use it to teach programming today. But this is mostly inertia...
...because python has changed in the last decade so that anything ever so slightly complex requires learning all it's dependency manager manager setups (conda, pyenv, etc) to set up an entire custom python implementation with it's own dependency manager (pip, whatever, etc) just to be able to run a single python application or use a python lib. Trying to do it with the actual python your system runs will always end in tragedy.
So yeah... Python is a simple language. But using python these days is so complex I actually chose C++ over it to avoid complexity. And that's really saying something. That said, there's no such thing as system 'go' at all so it brings in plenty of complexity too despite being 'simple' in it's own way.
...because python has changed in the last decade so that anything ever so slightly complex requires learning all it's dependency manager manager setups (conda, pyenv, etc) to set up an entire custom python implementation with it's own dependency manager (pip, whatever, etc) just to be able to run a single python application or use a python lib. Trying to do it with the actual python your system runs will always end in tragedy.
So yeah... Python is a simple language. But using python these days is so complex I actually chose C++ over it to avoid complexity. And that's really saying something. That said, there's no such thing as system 'go' at all so it brings in plenty of complexity too despite being 'simple' in it's own way.