A generation of developers grew up on Python, Ruby, etc., rather than C, and they were all brought up on this notion that performance doesn't matter much anymore because computers keep getting faster. But the problems we're solving with computers keep getting harder (in terms of the amount of computation required).
These days, I can comfortably state that I prefer Rust over Python, even for simple programs. I prefer it because the type system is much more useful than Python 3 with mypy, the performance is extraordinary out of the box, the language is often just as expressive, and I rarely have any actual issues with the borrow checker. I also prefer it because I've had far too many experiences with Python where supposedly performance didn't matter... until it did and Python was no longer appropriate.
I think we're entering into a generation of languages where things like Rust are going to start really seriously displacing C++, and as more people learn them they're even going to start displacing supposedly easier languages. Right now, few folks are going to learn Rust as an alternative to Python. But once they're exposed to it for other work and realize how productive they are, there's just going to be less of a need to reach for Python over time.