Agree, I have a friend who got a jungle carpet python as her first snake... and he is a BEAUTIFUL snake, but relatively unpredictable and cage-aggressive.She gets tagged/struck at multiple times almost every time she tries to take him out... which was a no-go for me when I was looking for a first snake experience.
Kind of ironically, she got a corn snake for her sister's first snake. Which now ended up being her snake too. The corn is docile as heck, and just kind of runs around like a loopy thing.