[dragonwriter]

> I wonder if this is intentional. FP constructs are increasingly discouraged in Python, taking reduce [1] as an example.

That single comment from Guido 15 years ago, which was largely backtracked on—map and filter remain in the core library and reduce moved to a library in stdlib, lambda remains—is not really an example of something accurately described as “increasingly” now. In fact, given the backtracking, it's arguably decreasingly true from the high point of that post.