In my experience and implied by the rising popularity of python, you would be among the minority. Personally, I find python to be the most clear of any language I've worked with, most resembling natural language in the way I typically speak. Do you have some examples of how you find it self-contradictory?
Here's an example of its expressiveness a colleague and mine I discussing the other day:
Python: [os.remove(i.local_path) for i in old_q if i not in self.queue]
Java: old_q.stream().filter(i -> !self.queue.contains(i)).map(i -> new Path(i.local_path)).forEach(Files::delete);
I've programmed in both languages but joked I could only understand the Java line by using the Python line as documentation!
Well you've picked the perfect example where Python's list comprehensions shine, 1 map, 1 filter, 1 'each'.
I think your Java example only looks gross because it's using ugly APIs, and isn't indented well, but otherwise, apart from contrived examples, pipelining is superior.
I find Python's lack of pipeline capability, whilst every other modern language supports it, very frustrating. JavaScript, Scala, Swift, Rust, Ruby, Elixir, C#, F#, Java, Kotlin <-- all support pipelines.
Meanwhile, Python has borked, 1-line, lambdas that compose awkwardly with map/filter (if you do a map over the result of a filter, they'll be written in reverse order), and refuses to implement useful methods on lists, that would allow pipelining. It's like it can't decide to pick the OO solution to the problem (and add the methods to lists) or to go the FP route (and fix its lambdas), so has done neither.
So we're stuck hoping our problem at hand fits neatly into a list comprehension, which still won't be composable when we come back to it and realise we want to add another operation.
I like Python very much, but this is one of it's weakest areas in my opinion, so I'm surprised you bring it up as a strength.
Here's an example of its expressiveness a colleague and mine I discussing the other day: Python: [os.remove(i.local_path) for i in old_q if i not in self.queue] Java: old_q.stream().filter(i -> !self.queue.contains(i)).map(i -> new Path(i.local_path)).forEach(Files::delete);
I've programmed in both languages but joked I could only understand the Java line by using the Python line as documentation!