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Isn't that the same argument that so many companies used to hang on to IE6 for so long? There were a ton of in-house applications built on ActiveX and IE6 quirks and porting to something newer wasn't worth the cost.

Eventually, don't you think that you will start using a more modern version of Python?

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Or switch to another language, just as so many people switched to Firefox or Chrome while waiting for a sane modern IE.

"Modern" for its own sake adds no value, so no, we won't port our existing code bases to something "more modern." It's funny that string interpolation, a port of a feature other languages like PHP have had for decades and the fourth way to do the same thing in Python, is being held up as something modern.

How about "supported?"

You may have also missed the other features from 3.0 to 3.6. Cumulatively they are substantial.

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