Re: Python and “one obvious way” – When I learned Python in 2013, that was definitely something that appealed to me. It was a huge relief after learning Ruby a year or two earlier and discovering that Ruby seems to intentionally support ten different ways to do absolutely everything 
For context, prior to picking up Clojure (in 2010), I’d been doing Scala and I had run into the “split brain” that is the Scala world of a) the Haskell-on-the-JVM crowd vs b) the better-Java crowd – two diametrically-opposed ways of doing anything. So Clojure seemed much more opinionated (which I liked) although it still – back then at least – seemed to have its more “functionally pure” crowd and its pragmatic, “just make stuff” crowd. And clearly my comp/partial monstrosity fell into the former camp. But I think a lot of that FP crowd left in those early years and with today’s pragmatic, maker-focused atmosphere, I hardly ever reach for partial and I’m much more sparing with comp too. I mean, who wants to read all that point-free code anyway?