Tell your stick-in-the-mud customers to just symlink it. I sincerely doubt you will be sued for telling your customers to symlink `dead-snake` to `python` if

Tell your stick-in-the-mud customers to just symlink it. I sincerely doubt you will be sued for telling your customers to symlink `dead-snake` to `python` if they're really stubborn about not changing their code one whit.