>This sounds like such similar sour grapes to the systemd escapades. Huge initial outroar as certain things happened, followed by a gradual diminishing, then [mostly] acceptance.

Only here we don't have mere service scripts, but millions of lines of code people have written in perfectly fine 2.x Python.

And also here we don't have any significant uptake -- Python 2.x is still over 60% of what's used (according to PyPi stats and everything we've seen), and that's after 6+ years that Python 3 had its chances.