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

[Rick Johnson]

On Saturday, February 17, 2018 at 12:58:49 AM UTC-6, Paul Rubin wrote:
[...]
> Beyond that, the Python community (with some exceptions) seems to have a
> widespread hatred of threads.  It instead prefers to handle concurrent
> i/o with in-thread async schemes that the rest of the world left behind
> in the 1960s.  

Hmm... and many wonder if the source of that hatred is a direct result of
CPython's unholy alliance with the GIL?