> But two, C++ invites pedantry. I heard endless discussions about "ooh, template meta-programming", "struct or class", "but is this idempotent", "you should be using move semantics", "why on earth is this a unique_ptr".

Interestingly, I've consistently had the opposite experience. In C++, when I ask, "how do I do X" there will be a few different options, but pretty much any of them will do. As long as you avoid things that are definitely UB, you're fine. In Python, I'll find endless religious arguments about which is the most "Pythonic" method. Whenever I try to just hack out Python code to just get things done, I always feel like I'm being judged, because usually the quick-and-dirty method is far from the most Pythonic.