I don't understand why you are getting downvoted. TensorFlow 1.x barely worked and people stuck with it because the alternatives were worse. I moved to PyTorch as soon as I could because it is better than TensorFlow 1.x, TensorFlow 2.x, or Keras w/TensorFlow backend.

TensorFlow is designed by committee and is more of a brand now than a machine learning framework. Did you know there is TensorFlow Quantum?