Though in this specific case, my sense has been that your complainers are often your most dedicated and invested users of a version of the language that was off

Though in this specific case, my sense has been that your complainers are often your most dedicated and invested users of a version of the language that was officially retired 38 days ago. Python is just bizarrely political. I suspect that it's now cursed for all time to have every future PEP become a battle in a proxy war over PEP 3000.