You don't need to use multiple inheritance, coroutines or anything advanced in Python and still be productive. Many non computer science data analysts do exactly that and are very successful with it.

Go and other languages listed in the original articles on the other hand require you to understand the full complexity before you even begin or spend most of your time deep in documentation if you decide to learn as you go. Static type language simply doesn't allow you to not understand the type system.

This effect is especially enhanced in Scala, Haskell and similar ones where you will not finish a thing until you get a degree in category theory or Odersky theory.

'Worse' might not be intended to sound bad, but it surely does. It seems it is used to describe Unix and Python by that cohort of programmers whose intention is not to get shit done but to develop some mathematical theory of everything.

People who care about delivering results would not call them 'worse' compared to current alternatives in the first place.

There definitely are better alternatives on the horizon and they are better because they bring more simplicity to the table but not at the cost of giving up intuitiveness.