Perhaps, however, this hacky language is more productive in the real world than most. What’s the point, otherwise?

The points:

- As the GP stated, the thrill of hidden bugs.

- Feeling productive due to fixing eternal issues.

- Getting paid to fix eternal issues.

- Feeling smart by talking about unnecessary issues.

- Writing a constant stream of PEPs to fix issues.

- Give conference talks about how you fixed issues.

- Give conference talks about how you will speed up Python by 5%.