History/preference aside, I think you’re being a bit hyperbolic regarding the cost of removing the print statement. It’s like the most trivial broken feature to

History/preference aside, I think you’re being a bit hyperbolic regarding the cost of removing the print statement. It’s like the most trivial broken feature to fix with 2to3. I’ve definitely run into issues 2to3 couldn’t automatically fix (encoding issues in some py2-only lib I needed to use IIRC), but upgrading print doesn’t really have much overhead.