> is cheap
It's not even cheap, it's just possible to get companies to donate the resources to sustain it: https://dustingram.com/articles/2021/04/14/powering-the-pyth...
What it is is feasible, and IMO the alternative you're suggesting is infeasible under our current model of global economics without some kind of massive government funding.
> you're strongly incentivized to root your users simply because if you don't your competitors will
Python is not rooting it's users, this is hyperbole.