> although if you learn a hosted language, you're going to have to learn stuff about the ecosystem on which it is hosted

I thought this at first, but then I thought if you take Python, which is hosted on the OS directly through CPython, so we can say Python is hosted on Windows or Linux.

Well it turns out, most people never need to interop directly with Windows or Linux APIs or any other C interop.

Python seems to have a different mindset here, where most of its value proposition are providing wrappers over C/Windows/Linux/Mac APIs.

Why does so much effort get put in maintaining all these wrappers in Python? Is it just attitude? Is it that those APIs are much worse then Java's enough that even C programmers using Python want to wrap them over using them directly?