I don't disagree, but I think there's a fair amount of friction when maintaining standard libraries rather than third party ones just because of the implied sta

I don't disagree, but I think there's a fair amount of friction when maintaining standard libraries rather than third party ones just because of the implied stability. Your versioning is tied to python itself so it's probably kind of dull having to work with an API that you can't improve simply by bumping the version of the library.