I wonder if you have a different definition of "short scripts" than many others. It seems to me that a genuinely short script wouldn't require big refactors, or types---that would be overkill for a short script.

Personally, I use Python as a Bash replacement a lot, that's what I think of when I hear "short scripts." Sort of what people used to use Perl for. Pushing strings around, complicated repetitive filesystem manipulations. (And data sciencey stuff of course.)