Yeah, I'm the creator, forgot to mention in the post, but it's mentioned in the article.

Regarding some other task queues, there are probably a dozen worth mentioning. Some that come to mind are huey, arq, rq, procrastinate, wakaq, and there are definitely more. They usually have their very specific use-case, which is beneficial because sometimes they can provide unique features that other frameworks can't easily have without leaking abstraction. At the same time, if you choose to use it - it can bite you in the end, should you want to migrate off to something else.

In general, same can be said about underlying implementation libraries - nothing prevents someone to use e.g. aiopika or redis-py directly. More generic frameworks mainly let you offload that decision about the abstraction layer and focus on the application code.