Is there a reason we call methods in python like object.method instead of Class.method(object)?
Maybe it isn't a strange choice, but personally it made understanding the self parameter much easier when I was shown the second way of calling a method.
Hardcoding the class name basically prevents you from using polymorphism. This is general OOP, not particularly a Python feature.
Your calling code should not need to know, nor care, which exact class object is.
This is immediately a problem for code where object can be a member of either Baseclass or Derivedclass, but much more complex inheritance and method overriding scenarios are possible, and sometimes necessary.