Sadly I have to agree with you. Some things that changed were not even necessary. Why would the development team make replacement packages rather than fixing u

Sadly I have to agree with you. Some things that changed were not even necessary. Why would the development team make replacement packages rather than fixing underlying implementation, for example imp and importlib. There was also no sugar added to support this mangled jungle gym of package replacements. Backwards compatibility is a thing of dreams for the python developer. This is only one of many of the problems with the change.