No disagreement here from me! The times we have had to update things have been when the existing modules broke. One example which comes to mind from the recen

No disagreement here from me! The times we have had to update things have been when the existing modules broke. One example which comes to mind from the recent past is when urllib TLS certificate stuff broke and it needed updating. In that case, it didn't cause collateral damage, but we were forced to do it to keep things working. Externally-enforced changes like this could potentially cause breakage in the future if they drop python 2.7 support directly or indirectly.