My recent example: last week, I was installing a new program that uses some python scripts during its operation. I could not get those scripts to run. I knew it was because of the usual python problem of the scripts not matching the version of python that was executing them, but figuring out how to fix that took me a full day.

Just to make Python work. Not even as a dev.

Wearing my user hat, this is a clusterfuck. There is no other language that I am exposed to that presents this sort of problem, and this is a very common issue with Python.

This is why I start to get sweaty any time that I'm using software that involves Python. It turns into a crapshoot and half the time, it's going to cost me a lot of time and stress.

> perpetuates the false image.

You can believe it's a false image if you like, but there are a whole lot of end user experiences that indicate it's very real.