Python is about 35 years old at this point. It was the better language that had the better design and the fixed problems at some point in time.

Sure, maybe a committee way back in 1990 could have shaved off of some the warts and oopsies that Guido committed.

I’d imagine that said committee would have also shaved off some of the personality that made Python an enjoyable language to use in the first place.

People adopted Python because it was way nicer to use compared to the alternatives in say, 2000