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I feel like Python is sometimes too powerful in terms of what you can achieve with few lines of code. It tends to have lines that do a lot of things at once and therefore become very hard to understand despite not having a lot of code at the surface.
In my opinion it is very good for stuff like data analysis and scripting test setups, but (with my admittedly limited experience in the area) I dislike using it for larger applications. Because it is a scripting language and not compiled, I have run into errors that a compiled language would have detected before even starting. Meanwhile python was happy to run my program until it unfortunately branched into the defective path...
If you want to build stuff quickly it is incredibly what you can achieve with it though.
Use type hints. Pyright in strict mode. (Don't use mypy, it's much worse.)
I agree though, it is poorly suited to larger applications. Mainly because of its glacial speed.