For what it's worth, I read Armin's critiques, but I take them with a grain of salt; it's clear that what he wants from a language, and what other people want from Python, diverged a while back and are probably irreconcilable at this point. That doesn't mean he doesn't have good points, but does mean that I read his articles through a lens of "the language he really wants probably is never going to be Python again".