Nobody notices?

Yes, Turing equivalency means it's nearly always possible for a sufficiently skilled programmer to find a way to do something with language X that another can do in language Y. But if the language (+ runtime, library etc.) makes it difficult enough, no-one will.

I actually think that Red Hat's decision to have this code in a higher level language was a good idea, and if I have something against Python, it's no more than I do against Ruby, Perl, or a dozen other choices. Familiarity breeds contempt, I think they say. If there'd been a thread about how all of GNOME should be written in C this grumpy old man would probably have criticised that viewpoint too.

As to event-based concurrency. It's a nice idea (though you lose the potential perf gain on modern hardware from simultaneous multiple threads of execution) but it's not always sufficient from a practical point of view. Suppose you do a name resolution (DNS lookup). If you're lucky your language / runtime/ stock library contains an asynchronous resolve function, and you need merely design the program around not being able to do synchronous lookups. If you're not lucky, you have to write this yourself (good luck, it's really nasty). So maybe you decide not to bother, and then the poor user whose DNS server is down wonders why your program freezes.