> over the next 6 months My point is this is a very different situation from the Python 2->3 transition. If you have 12 years' notice to make some changes, I

> over the next 6 months My point is this is a very different situation from the Python 2->3 transition. If you have 12 years' notice to make some changes, I don't consider that technical debt: that's the normal price of maintaining software in a changing world. It's not "debt" that costs "extra interest" to pay back for questionable choices made previously.