[bastawhiz]

And yet much of Google was built with Python for a very significant chunk of its life. Netflix and Uber were/are heavily leveraging JavaScript for core workloads. The machine learning ecosystem is largely dominated by Python. Stripe, GitHub, and Shopify are still investing heavily in Ruby. Almost none of this is/was for the sake of accessibility to beginners.

Your example cherry picks exactly one instance, ignoring the context of that choice. Such an assertion requires more than just anecdotal musings and ignores the tradeoffs that those teams made when choosing a platform.