I think his point was that Python is more useful for one-off stuff and I'd claim that much better than bash at those kinds of things.

But Python has so many quirks and bad designs. Function scoped variables, multiple inheritance, backwards comprehension syntax, poor pattern matching, poor handling of None and so much is convention based so you don't get an error if you did it wrong. Python classes aren't serializable (not even data classes).

Coupled with it's awful performance I'm convinced the reason people use it is because they don't know anything else.

Python may be a grown up language but it's still a pretty awful language for ad-hoc scripting. It really wants to believe that you only use it for writing Python projects damnit! You can beat it into submission, but as soon as you start typing import in a situation that isn't a nice pure Python package it will say "whatchulookinatmate? Youwannafight?"

Don't believe me? Explain how relative imports work.