Python was already huge in the 2.x days.
Most people thought otherwise, because they don't bother to read the reference manuals.
Most people thought otherwise, because they don't bother to read the reference manuals.
Which is why making an already complex language even more difficult a very big mistake.
Python has a lot of things in the standard library, though I think the tendancy has been to stop adding things (case in point: I believe there is very little argument against putting requests into the standard library. I get why they don't but I disagree with the reasoning)
Yep you're right, there's even an official effort to clear some of these out: https://peps.python.org/pep-0594/
You didn't ask about relative usage. You asked for a mainstream languages smaller than Python. Lua almost certainly is.