I think the point is that if those things in stdlib were external packages then older versions of the language would be easier to support because you could just

I think the point is that if those things in stdlib were external packages then older versions of the language would be easier to support because you could just update the package. I think the way it was phrased made it really easy to misunderstand. I think this goes to her point of Twisted wanting to support really old versions of Python and they would be a lot more comfortable not supporting really old versions of packages.