the reason this is a conversation is because of how massively successful Python has been at the intersection of "reasonably simple syntax, reasonably simple language, reasonably simple runtime, reasonably simple builtins".

Python is the biggest victim of its own success. There have been warts in Python since the beginning, but they mostly only look like warts in retrospect because of how much Python has shifted the conversation about what a language _could_ be.

I hope someday something truly better along all the relevant axes will replace Python. But Python has maximized utility along so many of those axes that it's an (observably) uphill battle for everybody who is currently trying.