It also fits with the Zen of Python (which tbf rarely seems to happen) of, “There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.”

Node / JS in general seems to take the path of, “this existing solution doesn’t precisely fit my needs, so instead of rethinking why that might be, I’m going to reinvent the wheel.”

Given that you where arguing that using python on the most popular OS in the world should fall outside of a 'normal' use case python should focus on, perhaps you have a too narrow view of what "correct and normal" python usage should be.