Amateur coders always have flocked to the simple and unfashionable stuff. Basic used to be big for this reason. Javascript took off for this reason as well. Web designers could just copy paste javascript fragments in their web pages and get some simple things working. And python seems to appeal to a lot of amateur coders with non computer science backgrounds. At least I know a lot of people with physics, chemistry, bio medical, etc. backgrounds that seem to mainly know python.

Objectively, none of these languages are particularly good at what they do and there are other languages that tend to be preferred by people who code for a living. But these are harder to learn and have higher barrier for entry. You typically need some theoretical background and experience.

I've used all of the above BTW. I learned programming using the manual that came with my Commodore 64 in the eighties (Basic, obviously). I kind of like Python for some things. Javascript is fine for simple things. None of these are my first choice of language but I can work with these languages. They are very approachable languages. Just open an editor and start adapting code.

There's a lot of language snobbery out there where objectively, the advantages aren't that huge or dramatic as people like to believe.