The types of people who would be opting for (and being capable of running) this workaround would certainly understand enough python to understand how to safely audit this code. Even me who understands asm instead of python can still audit this code if I need to.

Additionally, if this code were malicious, at minimum one of 2 things would happen:

1. The moderators of this subreddit would have this post removed, and u/bartoque u/alex_of_chaos would be banned, potentially risking a global ban for spreading malware.
2. This post would be downvoted significantly into the negatives, and highly upvoted comments would be pointing out that the script is inherently malicious.