You're right... but just to add.
In any Enterprise project involves a lot of talking to other systems(think Salesforce, Netsuite, Slack) or implementing existing protocols(SAML, OAuth,LDAP) and other such things. Python being popular for very long means there's prior work in almost every area. I believe this can be one definition of "productive", basically re-using something existing and spend your time on other better things. In a lot of the same projects performance at the CPU level might not be a bottleneck because you're stuck waiting 10 seconds for an API call to Salesforce.
I'm more excited about PyO3 and other Python+Rust advances, where it seems you can offload lot of CPU intensive stuff to Rust but keep the Python layer and its ecosystem.