I mean... it IS the dumbest thing I have ever heard, and I really don't understand why that Guido guy fought so much for this. I also don't understand how the moral of your story is that leadership is important. It's not like the story showcases how things go wrong if you don't have leadership, or how things go well if you do have leadership (on the contrary, he forced the walrus operator in, the dumbest thing I have ever heard of). The points that were made against it were very valid, it's confusing and unnecessary, and he should've listened. Only reason why someone would want to use this notation is if they find it very important to make their code two lines shorter, or if they tell themselves it's because of point 1 but actually it's just a masturbatory action of: "OMG I'm so good at programming, I even use the walrus operator, I have no job so I can focus on perfecting the walrus operator to impress no one besides myself".