> Ultimately I think that's why Python has gained more traction than Ruby, it's an "easer" language to follow and start with. Ruby is probably a more fun and intellectually stimulating language to work with though.

Working with various Ruby-adjacent stuff for 10+ years and nothing about Ruby was even "fun" to work with, it was mix of "WTF" and "who designs language like that!".

Python is also not "easier" to start with, I'd put Ruby/JS/Python to be at pretty similar level there. No worrying much about types (till they bite you, inevitably, of course, and cause untold bugs), simple things are simple and actual proper (i.e. "not send it to some piece of C code to calculate) multithreading sucks donkey balls.