This is true, still: Everyday things that should be straightforward, or pythonic if you will, are way to convoluted and complicated.

As a python dev with experience since 2.6 I agree it has gotten better, but it is also rotten at it's core. The problems python has to solve there are hard, but this is why it should be priority number one to solve them elegantly and in a fashion so that 99% of python users never have to worry about them.

Right now packaging and dependency managment are my number one concern when I think about rexommending the language to beginners. The things I needed to learn just to figure out what is a good way of developing something with dependencies and deploying it on another machine is just way too much. When I was going through this there was no official "this is how it is done" guide.

Now there is poetry for example. Poetry is good. But there are still hard edges when you need to deploy to a system without poetry on it for example.