Even in a country with „free“ healthcare, if you are at fault for the accident, your car insurance will have to reimburse the other parties health insurance for their medical costs.

Exactly. Why would anyone still use Arduino when alternatives are both better and cheaper?

If the conventions suck you have to break them. How else can you improve things?

map and filter are almost always inferior to generators and comprehension expressions in terms of readability. If you prefer the former, it’s just because you got used to it, not because it’s better.

That’s just because you’re used to it. The pythonic ternary is structured like spoken language, which makes it easier to read, especially if you nest them.

Is there an objective argument for the conventional ternary, other than „That’s how we’ve always done it!“?

Exactly. If „conservatives“ were really conservative, fighting climate change would be their main topic.