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Python was popular before because it's very nice language. People wanted to use it for science to, so they wrote very good scientific libraries for it.
R was very popular for non-neural-network ML some years ago, yet it wasn't picked up for NN, because R kind of sucks for general programming. As the joke goes, the best part of R is that is a language written by statisticians. The worse part of R is that is a language written by statisticians.
Python was growing at accelerated speed year on year well before neural networks.
But you can just write a simple 20 line Python script to do some data mangling, no project with 30 IDE files required.
Telling people "just get fit" doesn't work.
You sitting on the sideline are not a paying consumer, and there are two few like you for such a product.
Remember that all TV started dumb, and SMART TV's were always premium products.
Could those be samples? Sure, but it's much easier to use the real thing than try to record those modulations.
Maybe they also used a tracker on that song.