Eh, not really. Python SOAP clients are bad and have always been. In reality, SOAP works well only when using platforms sold by commercial vendors, who invested heavily in producing tools for it in an attempt to generate lock-in for their tools. Which means interop issues between platforms, for anything beyond the trivial case, are rife.

Whereas REST is so basic that you literally need nothing more than a standard HTTP client (and a JSON parser, these days; back then it would be some hand-rolled XML or even just encoded form-like data).