[vertere]

> It's really not a lot to grok, at least by most other language's standards.

Yes, but people have been attracted to Python largely because it's not like a lot of other languages. It is/was concise, simple, dynamic and fairly easy to learn. I think some of the new features, even if they don't make it a worse language, make it less "Pythonic", and so tend to undermine its comparative advantage. For experienced programmers the new features might not seem complicated, but python is used by a lot of people who are not in that category, including people for whom software development isn't their primary job.

[Daishiman]

I agree for the most part; I have not seen the use of the walrus operator or many new features of the last two major Python releases.

Nontheless, as a user of the language I just don't see people trying to contort their code to use these things. The community has less attraction to flashy features than other languages, so I don't see people getting compelled to use things they don't care for.