Hm, interesting. I remember the upcome of Arduino: They advertised their system (setup() once, loop() forever) as very friendly towards tinkerers using 8bit uControllers. Anybody could jump straight ahead without setting up anything in ASM let alone programming the EEPROM externally.

With hardware progress (ESP32 is 32bit/80MHz+), it seems another iteration happened: processing power is traded again for accessability/usability. In this case python.

I could see python becoming the predominant system for 32bit micro controllers. But for small 8bit systems that just read out a sensor and turns of a switch, that will stay in the realm of Arduino and C.