"why use python " is a question I have asked myself for as long as Python has existed

Too capable for a job control language, interesting objection, but if a job control language is too capable, it becomes a job implementation language...

Too slow to implement applications. So many examples of big balls of Python code creaking and struggling, slowly. Just one example: my homeassistant instalation running three lights overwhelmed a Raspberry PI 4 causing it to crash once a week.

To me Python is a poster child for "popularity is not quality".