So spend the time doing the hard bit, then introduce some complexity and a software turducken for the sake of calling it from a "simple" language. At which point I'd then ask the question are we really so scared of someone accusing us of overengineering that we're creating more complicated solutions to appear simple and pretending the complexity doesn't exist?

This is basically how Python is useful, calling native modules.

It might not be aesthetically pleasant but it works.

If we think about it, most of the time you do not need to do that because some library author has already done it.

If one needs to write the native code it is not overengineering. It is only overengineering if it was not needed in the first place.