alt Hacker NewsPro and con. It hinders progress, but it can also arrest the "enshittification" of a language that takes place when it slowly adds complexity and features and support for whole paradigms.
Python does offer a lot more utility for the expert these days, but it also went from the maxim of "There is one obvious way to do it" to having 5-6 ways to format strings, adding more things to be familiar with, causing refactoring churn as people chase the latest way to do it, etc.
I'm a C++ developer. I wouldn't want to go back to older versions of the language, but it's also very hard to recruit any newer programmers into using it willingly, and the sheer amount of stuff in it that exists concurrently is a big reason why.
I agree with you in principle, but this isn't like T-strings or C++ concepts. We're talking about a feature that has become infamous for it's lack of syntax in Go. A feature that every other major language has some syntax for.