I'm afraid you've misunderstood olavk's point. 'The "quote" you made up' certainly refers to
> "here's this cool feature for doing something you could do a different way that looks like hieroglyphics and nobody understands but you should totally use it because it's awesome!"
not to
> "explicit is better than implicit" and "there should be one and only one good way"
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/