The bad habits I was thinking about were more in the line of not understanding how memory is being used (even something as simple as stack vs. heap allocation), not having a type system that forces you to think about the types of data structure you have in your system, and overall just being forced to design before coding

I ask for help from ChatGPT before I go all in, and it creates these old-fashioned ASCII graphics to show how the flow will be. I think newcomers will not have the bad habits we have/had.

Respectfully, many of those things aren't a concern from Python's point of view. And why should they be? If your program runs imperceptibly slower, or using an insignificant amount of extra memory, any attempts to fix this are considered a premature optimization that gets in the way of what is more important to pythonistas - developer experience and high level abstractions.

Frankly, the comparison with Rust doesn't even really make sense. They are different tools for very different problems.