Totally not weird at all. Users need very compelling reason to switch off any kind of platform. And usually one of the compelling reason is better performance.

Totally not weird at all. Users need very compelling reason to switch off any kind of platform. And usually one of the compelling reason is better performance. The reception towards Python 3 would have been very different had it launched with everything Python 3.5 currently have, more performant GIL, OrderedDict, decimal operations, the new asyncio, etc.