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It's more the fact that these languages force certain best practices using their compiler. While python can be great when used in best practice, its level of freedom make it easy for the user to get away with obvious mistakes. It's great to have freedom like that when you're writing small projects, but a large project could lead to unintended effects that cause more damaging issues than the time lost using a stricter language.

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That’s all great in principle, but is there any evidence to support this claim?

Certain properties are of course enforced so it’s impossible for a project to do certain things that make the code harder to read. On the other hand, humans are so creative that I have a hard time imagining that, given time and a wider mix of talent, you’ll still have code hygiene issues. Maybe not the exact problems that another language might have, but certainly your own flavor will be developed as developers have less contact with the core language enthusiasts that establish said best-practices..

Again, happy to be proven wrong but I’d like at least anecdotes or some kind of evidence rather than a theoretical argument from first principles that completely ignores the human element.

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