Wouldn't it be more explicit if there was a designated keyword that objects could use to access their own members instead of implicitly assuming that any first argument to a method is a reference to them, only called 'self' by convention?
Not really. You end up implicitly injecting some value into local namespaces instead of having a function that takes an argument.
The implicitness of methods working differently than normal functions > the implicitness of classes passing a first argument to methods.
def __init__(self, x, y):
self.super(x, y)