No, they should have made the breaking changes more slowly, piece by piece, with a couple minor versions depreciation cycle. Python 3 was too many changes simu

No, they should have made the breaking changes more slowly, piece by piece, with a couple minor versions depreciation cycle. Python 3 was too many changes simultaneously. But it also coincided with dramatic changes in the size and variety of the programming community. It was hard to anticipate the troubles, of course easy in hindsight.