You've been able to control all the Microsoft Office and other apps like Internet Explorer through "out of process" OLE automation for ages, and Python has a great win32com module (part of pywin32) for controlling "in process" and "out of process" OLE controls / ActiveX components.
Intgrating COM into Python is one approach, but another approach is integrating Python into Active Scripting. (The age old extending/embedding debate.)
And Active Scripting (1996) let you plug different "in process" interpreters into the web browser and other multi-lingually scriptable applications, and call back and forth between (many but not all) ActiveX components and OLE automation interfaces more directly, without using slow "out of process" remote procedure calls. (Some components still require running in separate process, like Word, Excel, etc, which work, but are just slower to call).
>The Microsoft Windows Script Host (WSH) (formerly named Windows Scripting Host) is an automation technology for Microsoft Windows operating systems that provides scripting abilities comparable to batch files, but with a wider range of supported features.
>It is language-independent in that it can make use of different Active Scripting language engines. By default, it interprets and runs plain-text JScript (.JS and .JSE files) and VBScript (.VBS and .VBE files).
>Users can install different scripting engines to enable them to script in other languages, for instance PerlScript. The language independent filename extension WSF can also be used. The advantage of the Windows Script File (.WSF) is that it allows the user to use a combination of scripting languages within a single file.
>WSH engines include various implementations for the Rexx, BASIC, Perl, Ruby, Tcl, PHP, JavaScript, Delphi, Python, XSLT, and other languages.
>Windows Script Host is distributed and installed by default on Windows 98 and later versions of Windows. It is also installed if Internet Explorer 5 (or a later version) is installed. Beginning with Windows 2000, the Windows Script Host became available for use with user login scripts.
Didn't they add Javascript support in 2018?
I agree though. They brought up that they were considering Python3 integration like 2 years ago and haven't said a word about it since.