I don't know Python but your comments make me think back to the "new math". Not sure what the basic motivation (not an expert) was but it seemed that abstract concepts like set theory and number theory were taught at the expense of linear algebra, calculus and geometry. The relationship between the new math and anything practical was lost on most of a generation of high school students many of whom graduated never having been taught simple arithmetic.
I don't know about Python or New Math, but it is unwise to dismiss anything to do with computers out of hand.
When I was in college in London in 1982, I had the honor of working on Modula-2 - one of the first object oriented languages. It was developed by Nicklaus Wirth of ETH Zurich who also developed Pascal. I wrote the library to perform manufacturing object-oriented simulation as my final year project. When I told my sponsor in Singapore that I wanted to continue my studies in object-oriented programming instead of coming home to work for the Government, I was told that in their view, object oriented programming had no future and no use.
I returned and spent the next few years writing statistical tabulation programs in Cobol. Then, I designed a couple of statistical/economic models using IP-Sharp APL - and they told me that APL had no future either. Five years after that, they were still using the statistical models I created..... the only problem was that no one could understand or maintain my programs, but all they knew was that it was accurate and it worked.
In 1993, when a bunch of us proposed that the Internet would be the information infrastructure of the future and that we should build the entire Government system (electronic Town Hall) on the Internet, we were told that the Internet was uncontrollable and that it would never amount to anything useful. Look where we are now.
I think that this is a fascinating thread, because the concentration of members of this forum who started in the deep, dark beginnings of computers must say something. I don't know what, but it says something about high end audio and computers.