Quote - If you've ever tried to deploy a non-trivial piece of software to multiple architectures, the ability to create a single installer that just works everywhere will look like manna from heaven to you.

I have, professionally, and no, it didn't look like manna, more like we'll lose millions of $ because of "well, it should work, it does on our computers" type bugs (It was Java, BTW)...
But lets not get there. BTW I have huge respect for Python since I have seen what you can do with it (speaking here about a massively distributed cross-platform media content management application, and no, not the same situation as quoted above, that one worked fine, despite/because I was one of the two project leaders), but I still think simplicity is an advantage. The simpler something is, the less chances it will have problems (just compare today's cars with the old ones).
But as I said, let's not derail this thread, the noise level is already high enough. You won't convince me, and I won't convince you... :-D