The Python situation had a major difference: the current maintainers of Python 2 and Python 3 are the same, and Python 2 is still intended to be EOLd. A clean b

The Python situation had a major difference: the current maintainers of Python 2 and Python 3 are the same, and Python 2 is still intended to be EOLd. A clean break would surely have avoided many problems but it's hard to speculate how it would have gone.