The analogy here is: "Imagine making a new, incompatible protocol and NOT fixing the 'Referrer' spelling error, because the old protocol had that spelling error

The analogy here is: "Imagine making a new, incompatible protocol and NOT fixing the 'Referrer' spelling error, because the old protocol had that spelling error" Python 3 is the version with breaking changes from 2.x and while stuff is being broken, they decided to fix the print statement. Python 3 wasn't invented to fix the print statement.