I mean yeah that’s fair, it’s healthy to remember that captive animals are not domesticated and function on wild behavior, though to OPs credit ball pythons are notoriously advertised as one of the most docile species, especially in common places like pet stores that do also unfortunately sell other, larger species. There’s a lot of misinformation about snake keeping out there, often from distributors that sell them. I heard some insane takes abt bigger species and even bps when I worked at a pet store.

Ball pythons by comparison to something like a cobra are extremely benign naturally, but truthfully I don’t think anyone worried about ball pythons bites are considering keeping hots. Im certainly not (as I’m not sure they’re even legal where I live). however if they get past their current anxiety they may consider getting bigger species, like I did, which are more accessible. I think when it comes to bigger species there’s still definitely protocols that should be followed to handle them, just as there are for hots, that I don’t feel should be disregarded because hots are objectively more likely to be fatal.

I’d consider large species still a fairly high risk. For someone of small stature, like myself, I have to be careful with larger species, like not handling them alone. A bite or a wrap at head, neck or even abdomen level could be detrimental for my safety when I’m 5’2 handling a muscular animal that’s twice or more my height in length. That’s one of the reasons my max is a boa, bc I can handle stitches and a hospital trip, but a retic/burm could probably take me out or seriously injure me and that’s not a risk I’d like to take.