I know the lack of multiline lambdas is a common criticism of Python, but I've never really understood it.

Typing

    someFunc( _ => {
       // this is 
       // a function 
       // with multiple lines
    })

Is only one line shorter than

    def foo ():
       // this is 
       // a function 
       // with multiple lines

    someFunc(foo)

There is a case to be made that the second version is more legible and that exposing the function foo makes unit testing it possible. I can understand why people might slightly prefer one or the other, but I honestly can't understand the intensity of opinion around this seemingly very minor syntactic difference.

I'm curious what you find verbose about Python classes as:

    class FooBar():
        text = "Hello World!"

        def hello(self):
            return self.text

feels fairly terse to me.