And I quote "But it's way better for high level stuff, data mangling, scripting, gluing, and for most web dev stuff."
You've listed things that rely on full stack of libraries and deployment options.(except scripting) As someone who has the pleasure to work with Python - Python is horrible at a lot of these things, in spite of the beauty of the language itself.
I don't know where you read either of your propositions in any of my comment.