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That raises the question of whether or not they did in fact fix them. I have several complaints (nonlocal/global, poor support for functional programming, everything is public) that I don't think guido will ever fix and I've been looking for a replacement because of that.
I also don't mean to suggest that a large standard library is inherently bad, I just feel that an over-large library leads to a kind of vendor lock-in.
I don't foresee any new programming languages hitting it off in the next decade (although I will no doubt be wrong) due to having an ever increasing barrier to entry.