Honestly, the language became kinda harsh for newcomers, what we see as developpers is 'it's like pseudocode that runs'.

But a beginner is often left behind the billions of methods in each class. He is not used to documentation, and spend quite a huge amount of time learning by heart stupid things like 'len()' in this case it's '.len()' here it's '.length',etc.. For many meany methods that all have their idiosyncracies.

At least in c/(easy)c++, you need to build yourself most of it, helping the understanding.

I'm not completely against python as a first language, but it need to be teached well, and that could include working with a very minimal set of functions on every objects. Then you can expand and incorporate more and more methods that make life easier.