Lambdas are best replaced with `def` in Python - you can define a function anywhere and naming it has advantages. It's a tiny bit more verbose, but in any situation the "crippled" lambda isn't enough, it would probably be less clear in a single expression anyway. I get the arguments that it's less expressive this way, but honestly, it's one of those cases where I think it generally increases code quality.

There is absolutely a ternary operator, it just uses a different order and keywords rather than symbols - `x ? y : z` is `y if x else z` - I think this is much better - it reads much more obviously, uses the keywords from the `if` construct it has the same basic functionality as, and isn't symbol-based, which is always a huge pain point for people working out what the ternary operator is for the first time in other languages. I'd argue this is a place where Python is more expressive than other languages.

Self everywhere is debatable - I get why it's a pain point, but it also does decrease magic and I find new programmers actually pick the object system up quicker thanks to it. I think I wouldn't do it if I was designing a language, but it's not the worst thing ever.

The rest have pros/cons but I'm generally more aligned with, but no language is perfect. I think Python is one of the best, particularly as a first language - a lot of the problems people complain about (including your list) stem from familiarity with other languages that do things another way. Python is more opinionated than most languages in terms of having right ways to do things.

It's interesting, because I like languages on both ends of that spectrum - Scala is so not-opinionated there are a lot of ways to do anything, and Elm is so highly opinionated there is almost never another way to do something.

I think in general though, a language should be opinionated, because consistency and readability are generally more important than writing it. I think Python is exceptionally good at that.