I think it's just a convenient and popular language to experiment with.
For production systems, people just use Python + Rust when needing a balance between dynamism and strictness. The tooling to mix them is very mature and the communities are overlapping.
With uv becoming the defacto packaging solution for python, I expect the border to blur even more in the future.
Western societies have higher social trust which enabled them to outcompete the rest of the world. Business moves at the speed of trust. Now that western society has increasing contact with the low trust world it is regressing to the mean.
Some people have issues with the idea that the entire web will eventually depend of a single point of failure and private for provide entity like cloudflare.
For production systems, people just use Python + Rust when needing a balance between dynamism and strictness. The tooling to mix them is very mature and the communities are overlapping.
With uv becoming the defacto packaging solution for python, I expect the border to blur even more in the future.