And that's assuming it ever had any kind of "zen" in the first place. Its package management system looks like from something from Dante's "Inferno" rather than any kind of Oriental wisdom.

Agreed.

It's weird, I am usually a very late adopter of technology. Being early here has allowed me to watch Python mutate into one of the things I fled from. When I heard someone say that the standard library is where code goes to die, I felt my heart break a little bit.

Most of these changes directly address friction I've experienced. I like them.