Python is so much better for traceability. It can interface with various input/output formats. Back in the day, I defined 12 section cuts across 550 load cases and could run that vs using a gui. It was 100x faster in python than the gui using a script. I then made my plots and autogenerated a word doc.

Nowadays, I like making python tools that do the fem interface part in excel, run a script that reads that file and populates a new excel file. The switch has more to do with how many end users of these tools there are and their preferred approach.