Which is strange because those same managers may be full adherents to micro tasking projects in a project management system whose purpose is basically to do for the project what code management does for the code itself.

In my workplace, we've recently had leadership that appreciates these things, and the difference is night & day. Simple requests from "stakeholders" (I hate that term) are often filled in days, or same day, instead of weeks. I think it helps tremendously that the primary manager is also a coder herself, and still codes ~25% of her job.

I believe it's Guido that basically said - if you don't like how Python does it, then implement it in C. And that's how you end up with great C based libraries bound to python... and python is often used as a messy orchestrating language.