You just read what you want to read, friend. I don’t particularly dislike Python, in fact I wrote about 50k lines of it a few years ago.

My claim is that the big names don’t really use Python outside of data pipelines. Where I’ve worked (including an org that had had Guido on it for a while) usually had guidance saying “no new Python projects”. You can ask people at Google, Meta, etc when was the last time they wrote production Python code if you don’t believe me.

That’s not mutually exclusive with web devs on Stack Overflow using the language, nor does it take away from its success in academia.