My hobby experience might not be similar to professional usages. In past thought about such tools, considered python for its ease of use and being dynamic. I was leaning towards electron/node.js for native html/css/svg based model generation and display. Also a hybrid approach with point and drag as well as programming facilities generating pcb or components.

It is not a 1-1 comparison but one distant example would be plain text html/css vs frontpage and dreamweaver. Over the time i have seen for a serious work done using plain texts instead of studio based design (may be specific to HTML?).