Just thinking — Linear Algebra is pretty general purpose, not consistently only used by Data Scientists. Maybe moreso, but there are thousands of operations that involve matrix math, which Python CAN support on its own with hard-code, but most other high-level languages have this in their standard library. Key word high-level, in other words: like you said, education, lots of people learn Python as their first language. Of course, in my opinion this is loads different from noting the possibility of array math in something like C, but obviously C is very low-level.

If we think about Python at one of its higher levels, webservers come to mind. Well, even Javascript has matrix math via math.js in its standard library:

https://mathjs.org/docs/datatypes/matrices.html

And in my opinion, Javascript is more high-level than Python.

Whether or not it will be in Python — I don’t know or care. I don’t need it to be, but it is interesting to think about what is coming in and going out, and that realm of segmentation. While i’m not a big proponent, it is a little hard to ignore the potential of it happening, with the population of ML/DS users using Python.