Maintaining python2 and python3 forever in perpetuity wouldn't be free either. Why should they provide free labor in perpetuity so that you need no provide any?

In theory if there was sufficient need the entire community of python2 users could collectively fund said support but I don't see how they can demand it for free.

> Why should I have to do labor to fix things that already work?

You don't right? Python 2 still works.

You don't need to, provided you're willing to also maintain a Python 2.x fork on your own instead, or willing to pay someone else to do it for you, or willing to risk no more patches to the interpreter. You do you, boo.

You don't have to it's not like PSF made Python 2.7 stop working on January 1st 2020.