And this exactly is the beauty of free software. The core team is free to drop support or do whatever they want. One thing they cannot force people to upgrade.

And this exactly is the beauty of free software. The core team is free to drop support or do whatever they want. One thing they cannot force people to upgrade. They will upgrade when they want to upgrade. Personally I tried upgrading a couple of times, but partial or no support of Python 3 from libraries I depended on, stopped me from doing it.