I'm pretty sure that I was quite blatantly suggesting that Python fails to meet suitability. That doesn't mean we don't use it...because people like it. But it adds complexity and "business risk", whether you like it or not.

In some spaces (ML) you're going to have to ship some Python, but what I was saying was that I would rather not.

My role the past few years has been some mix of deployment engineering & systems engineering and the conclusion that I quickly came to was that deploying scripting languages like Python/Ruby/etc is the realm of assholes. ...which was a funny lesson because mainly through my career I've worked in smaller scale shops using almost exclusively scripting languages.