Unmitigated arrogance combined with scathing contempt for their user base, perhaps?

I'd expect nothing less from the people that botched the Python 2.x to 3.x transition, burning billions of dollars of software value and countless hours of development effort in the process. Or the people who repeatedly failed to come up with a sane library and package system.

Python demonstrates that having a standards body and caring about backward compatibility are not bad things, and that a platform's most important job is to absorb pain, not multiply it across millions of users.

It comes as no surprise that even their web site would migrate to the latter camp.

Thinking about making a new thread to ask it to be taken down for good.