> It's super funny to see people defend curly based languages.
Well, that's because they're not really "strictly worse" in every way. I find curly braces helpful for readability and cursor navigation. The latter is only possible with Python by completely parsing the code. Also I don't like reading vertically dense code, so having (almost) empty lines inbetween is fine. All subjective of course, but that's the case for every aspect of language syntax.
> Using curlies but not indenting properly is almost always a sign of a bug
I don't think anyone criticising Python's syntax cares about the freedom to have inconsistent indentation, that's not the point.
Well, that's because they're not really "strictly worse" in every way. I find curly braces helpful for readability and cursor navigation. The latter is only possible with Python by completely parsing the code. Also I don't like reading vertically dense code, so having (almost) empty lines inbetween is fine. All subjective of course, but that's the case for every aspect of language syntax.
> Using curlies but not indenting properly is almost always a sign of a bug
I don't think anyone criticising Python's syntax cares about the freedom to have inconsistent indentation, that's not the point.