I agree completely and I would add that the less mental effort you are spending on your language, the more you are using on your problem. This can have big effects on code and design quality, and allow you to grasp harder problems.
Python started as a language with one correct way to do any task (more or less, but still).
Over time people have added all the other ways and called it progress.
What we need is a python fork that trims most of this crap and makes a faster implementation. And gets rid of this horrifying steering committee or whatever is currently butchering python. No wonder Guido had to leave the scene, to cry himself to sleep probably.
That is a funny question (in the good sense). I would argue the VCs are cargo culting themselves, but of course another could argue that once the VC money has moved into the pockets of the programmers, then the important part of the process is done.
I just doesn't necessarily create any useful software.
There is funny business going on at manjaro, but by god do they deliver! I run 5 linux computers at home for various ends and I got tired of putting a new Ubuntu on them every now and then. At the time I looked at manjaro, other rolling distros couldn't even survive an update from the latest installation media to current (sidux). Arch is/was a hobby in itself and the opposite of what I was seeking, but it is an excellent foundation. Manjaro has kept these 5 machines for over 5 years through every possible update and it never broke them. Kernel switching is a joy. Driver installing switching is a joy. This is a very tall order.
That said I do hope endeavouros or others can fill Manjaro's immense boots.
I noticed this a few months back, back when someone kept posting anti-meritocracy articles hoping for a thread that wasn't a train wreck. I started testing their algorithms by repeatedly posting the exact same comment and observing what happened. This triggered changes to the algo itself, and eventually it moved from downvoting to flagging, or maybe a human supervisor did. This was across multiple accounts and many weeks of posts. Eventually dang told me to stop. My current account name is a tribute to this.