PEP 572: Python assignment expressions has been accepted

I hope I'm not the only person who reads this and really, really dislikes this.

If Python's gonna have breaking syntax, why not work on bringing it more in line with other modern languages that don't require special breakout syntax for expressions and rely more on functional features?

Are we still maintaining that lambdas are hard but suggesting expression-scoped variables are easy?

The difference here is that this pattern of get-value-check-it is in pretty much every program longer than a few lines. And possibly in every one using regexes. Missing lambda opportunities are not nearly as easy to point out.