[ssivark]

Totally. That structure also allows for multiple dispatch, which makes generic programming much much more pleasant than OO (which is basically single dispatch). Eg. See Julia.

To elaborate, tying methods with the individual/first argument makes it very difficult to model interactions of multiple objects.

[pansa2]

> tying methods with the individual/first argument makes it very difficult to model interactions of multiple objects.

The best example of this in Python is operator overloading. We need to define both `__add__` and `__radd__` methods to overload a single operator. Even then, there are situations where Python will call one of those where the other would be better.