Totally agree - I just don’t see that as a distinguishing factor since we had a bunch of shell scripts break, too, as various CLI tools stopped behaving consistently.
I guess this is a YMMV thing. My experience is that Python rots more than shell scripts, but of course I understand that this may not be universally true, and depends a lot on what your scripts actually do (and, to a large extent, on how they're written, of course).
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0466/
(Can't remember the details, but it may have been something about some extra hoop you'd have to jump through to trust self signed certs that broke our testing infrastructure)