Sure, but the more language that you may not use to write perfectly fine programs but have to know to know the whole language the more it seems superfluous. (See the whole drama over walrus operator). Python has accumulated a bit of rust also, old ways of doing things that were replaced with more modern ways, but that you should not use often. New languages or languages that don't evolve fast don't have them. python is becoming more and more complex (not tragically like c++) and v1.7 was indeed much simpler but it's still a nice language considering its age and scars.