Easy question: I get a paycheck every other week from my employer, Red Hat, who pays me and thousands of other people to build, maintain, and support enterprise open source software.
A Python script is not the answer when I'm trying to do something quick and dirty at the shell.
The beauty of shell scripting is that it evolves seamlessly from trying to solve simple problems at my command prompt. I pipe a couple of things together, and then I realize I could use a loop and a few conditionals, and suddenly it makes sense to store this in file in case I want to do this again. Boom, program done.
It now works on every computer I own.
I love Python. I use it almost every day. But I'll be damned if I'm going to go rewrite every shell snippet I hack together into Python just because it exists.
Not intentionally picking on Listmonk (or you), but when I hear "alpha-quality code" and start thinking about the complexities of marketing emails with GDPR, CCPA, and the constant threat of blacklists and otherwise getting blocked by big G, I run for the hills.
> Arvind Krishna was "Jim Whitehurst's boss" until now
Not true. Jim (and Red Hat under him) reported directly to Ginni. Red Hat was under IBM cloud for revenue reporting, though, but the distinction is material.
I assume if the entire world is spending billions of dollars reworking culture, infrastructure, software, etc., that swapping to making weekly pay the norm is just a bit of noise in that transition.
We're still hiring, by the way.