Someone pointed out to me recently as you say, the idiomatic python sometimes seems like more of a barrier. It takes more time to parse and grok, for their human brain, a for loop with a zip having multiple interables vs nested for loops. I've been thinking about this. So take, a list comprehension, supposedly better than a for loop at times. The canted take would be that list comprehensions are said in a way of what a human wants, the for loop is more how to do it, and the former is better ipso facto. And I think I've come to appreciate this difference and preference.

My conclusion is that I rather like the opinionated take of python. It might take a liiiiittle bit of a learning curve, but you do come to appreciate the zen of choices they've arrived at after a few decades of going at it.