Not sure how this post reached the HN front page since the arguments are extremely weak. This is like a complain about things a Java programmer don't like about Python or alike. Disclaimer: I don't use Python.
Google ruined the simplicity and orthogonality of the internet while we all were there looking. There is nothing of the original design grandiosity of the first batch of internet protocols here. It's just engineering work of sacrificing every elegance and modularity to seek some percentage (not order of magnitude) performance gain.