Python has it's own problems. Not the least of which being it being hundreds of times slower than coreutils.

I'll take learning Shell and a handful of coreutils, over praying the sysadmin has successfully navigated/allowed me to navigate all the Python footguns.

Also, good luck doing anything embedded where space is at a premium. Not all base systems have/need Python. Everything needs a shell, however.

Hehe, wasn’t the Python 2 to 3 incompatibility debacle a thousand times worse than [fe]grep? Python2 is still lingering in places even after Python 2 was removed.

I like hand saws and I like circular saws/Skil-saws. I use them for different things.