They pushed out v19 on Android to ensure it wasn't the best version. 18.9 unmaintained is better than 19 on the other platforms, which is sad. I run Kodi on a F

They pushed out v19 on Android to ensure it wasn't the best version. 18.9 unmaintained is better than 19 on the other platforms, which is sad. I run Kodi on a FireTV Cube and it looks like I won't be updating from 18.9 for a very long time. It'd be interesting to know if the folks who worked on Android walked off stage (to use your words) due to the additional fuss with the Python 3 switch. This whole thing is really yet-another fault of Python 3, heck of a legacy. Probably the worst and least advantageous break, in one of the more popular programming languages, ever. You could blame the maintainers for embracing it. I'm not a Python expert, but there is no good answer other than stop supporting programming languages with poor backwards compatibility. An option may have been something like a transitional measure in the system that addons import Python-Future or they won't work, and after a year or two of that, release a version of Kodi that is Python 3 only.