This perspective doesn't grant enough credit to the significance of C in general, and the C ABI in particular, in the overall computing landscape. While a lot of folks have put a lot of work into making it possible to write software without needing to learn the details of what's happening at the machine level, it's still the case that the *one* language binding interface that *every* language runtime ends up including is being able to load and run C libraries.
P.S. It's also worth remembering than many Pythonistas, including members of the core development team, happily switch between programming languages according to the task at hand. Python can still be our *preferred* language without becoming the *only* language we use :)