For python 2/3, it was because the BDFL made a wrong call. But we are past that now, and we collectively learnt something from the debacle, including the BDFL h

For python 2/3, it was because the BDFL made a wrong call. But we are past that now, and we collectively learnt something from the debacle, including the BDFL himself: > As for "Machiavellian Python maintainers", that's real. There have been explicit attempts to apply pain to Python 2.7 users. This has decreased since von Rossum got stuck maintaining Python 2.7 code at Dropbox as his day job. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13020680 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13020680) For java 8/9, it was because Brian Goetz still has a boss. We can just compare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y5Pv4yN0b0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y5Pv4yN0b0 to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHoRBvt3U6o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHoRBvt3U6o. Hopefully some lessons were learnt as well.