> With Python, of course, I don't even think twice about using relatively higher-level concepts (in fact, I don't have a choice), so even as a professional programmer, I've popped one meta-level up in the abstraction stack

But these existed in programming languages before Python's inception, at least back to Lisp in the 60s. And newer languages like Go eschew some of the higher level flexibility of a Python on purpose.

Also, despite the widespread use of languages like Python, JS and Ruby, C/C++ and Java remain just as widely used as ever.