Sigh. You would think that reflecting on a thread the author knows is public would have better introspection than this, but there's that Upton Sinclair quote again:
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
Python didn't win simply by randomly being selected as the choice to snowball effect on. Ask any language-agnostic or new programmer to take take a gander at each one. 90% will find Python easier to use. That's where Python's strength is, and that is a huge market, as the general population just isn't that great at advanced lower-level programming like C++. So you have college intro courses and programming-adjacent fields in academics (stats, bio, etc) able to dabble into Python. Perl kept plodding on with it's diehard unix fanbase. You can't expect mass appeal when that's your focus. Still failing to acknowledge this is what contributed to Perl's downfall (random snowball effect, seriously?) at the expense of Python is why Perl continues its decline.