Python's original "sales pitch" was that it was a clean and simple language. As years go by and more weird stuff is piled in, it becomes less Pythonic.

I forget which book this was from, but when I was learning python back in 2003 a major selling point was 'you can't make assignments in control structures'. Happy days to a physics undergrad who had seen more if(a=3) in C code than he could shake a stick at.

Sometimes less is more. Python is turning into more is less. It doesn't need to be everything to everyone.

what you're seeing is the straw that broke the camel's back