Agreed. After indentation-as-syntax -- which I've always hated, and I've been using Python since version 1.5 -- lack of switch statement is my #1 problem with Python.
What would you prefer? C-style syntax? Ruby-style `end end end`?
If that is a keyword, or brackets, or whatever, I would prefer that. You can't minify or easily lint python. And you can't easily tell if there are mixed indent methods (tabs/spaces) and IDEs struggle with it vs. a simple bracket structure.