Are the critiques in "All the things I hate about Python" valid?

[Ian Kelly]

On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 9:32 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> You'd be surprised how rarely that kind of performance even matters.
> The author of that article cites C# as a superior language, but in the
> rewrite from C# to Python (the same one I mentioned in the other
> post), I sped the program up incredibly. Part of that is because C#
> requires the startup of its framework (in my case that's Mono) just as
> Python does, and partly it's because the simplicity of Python let me
> eliminate a number of unnecessary HTTP requests. Trust me, your choice
> of language doesn't help you if it means you do three (sequential)
> HTTP requests when one would have done. Clean code has its own
> advantages.

Okay, I'm curious. How did C# force you to make extra HTTP requests
that were no longer necessary when you rewrote in Python?