It is crazy to see they are still using python 2. Seeing how slow the conversions to python 3 have been, was creating python 3 a good decision for python community? Can it be argued that developing python 2 further in a backward compatible way would have been better for the community? I know that evaluating this kind of thing is hard as metrics are bound to be subjective and speculative. But I am curious if there was any serious attempt to figure it out.