Python is amazing compared to writing bat/sh scripts. Different languages are for different purposes, using eg. Rust to write system scripts would just be mental. Whether people abuse those languages for purposes they were not intended for is another story, but that doesn't mean the language is inherently bad. And I mean,

> and it’s way too easy to do the wrong thing

is there another programming language where you believe a data scientist is going to have an easier time writing correct code than Python? Do you think C or Rust or JavaScript or C# make it harder to do the wrong thing?