In general, for a new project of any size, or significance, or where performance/concurrency was a concern; hands down, yes, I would absolutely reach for a strong, statically typed, compiled language.

The fact remains though that Python is an excellent general purpose language, easy to learn, almost universally known, has libraries for everything (and that’s just the stdlib). It is well suited to rapid prototyping, scripting, and data wrangling. Adding incremental typing makes it even better.