There is one part in me that says to not destroy your positive mood, there is another part in me that wishes to yell at the pythonistas in general to look outside the Python world.

Too often I come across Python projects that are hyped and when I dive into it I find it rather underwhelming to say it politely. Invariably it turns out that those people don´t know any other language than Python.

I see that as a general problem; Python is the language for beginners this day with an endless amount of tutorials, but it seems lots of those starters don´t get to have a look outside the Python world. I fear this is getting an even bigger problem because AI models are trained on a vast range of Python, not because it is better, but simply because it is the PHP of these days.

I don´t mean to imply that I know you have that "narrow profile".

I agree that the value in Python is for quick prototypes in case you know Python well. Outside of that (at the risk of a language war), I think one does better look into modern .net core or the JVM for a general purpose, high quality and highly efficient language/platform.

On the topic of ORM I think EF Core (.net core) and Doctrine (php) is strictly better.