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The problem I have with this theory is that the JS community and Ruby community had big breaking changes, dev told them to fuck off. The community adapted quickly.

Python took care of the community, giving time, tools and doc. And nobody moved. But they surely complained a lot.

What does that say ?

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In the case of Ruby, it's because the vast majority of the Ruby community is tied to a single framework. Ruby developers go where Rails goes.

But this just highlights the case with JavaScript even more. In JavaScript nobody is tied to any framework, and they can easily leave for another browser at any time. Heck, with jQuery, it doesn't even matter if you're writing ECMAScript 3 or 6, everything still pretty much works the same out of the box.

At the end of the day there's a lot to be said about the transition from 2 to 3, but I think in general the Python community got off easy compared to some of the breaking changes in other language communities.

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