> Tooling and packaging are just better. I find myself fighting Python sometimes when setting up testing with pytest, or packaging with poetry/pdm. This overhead is eliminated with Cargo.

Python's package / project management story is seriously abysmal compared to its competitors. It's crazy that for a language with as much adoption the best we have is poetry. Adding and isolating project dependencies should not be a difficult thing to do, it should be first class in any serious language like it is in node, ruby, elixir, rust, etc etc etc.