> It often feels like the median Python (or JavaScript for that matter) user has a very different mindset than Rust, Go, C, etc programmers (in my experience, Python programmers also are much less likely to have used other languages extensively).

Totally agree. One example of "python-brain" that I see a lot at my employer is using pandas dataframes as the only data structure, beyond _maybe_ the occasional list or dict. Any entity with multiple attributes is represented as more columns in a dataframe, rather than via objects.