I believe that was a joke. I mean he can actually dislike the operator but I'm sure he knows he doesn't have to use it and it also isn't what makes Python 3 dif

I believe that was a joke. I mean he can actually dislike the operator but I'm sure he knows he doesn't have to use it and it also isn't what makes Python 3 different from Python 2 - it just has been added (in 12 years since Python 3.0 release) and nobody uses it in production at the moment anyway.