It has nothing to do with loyalists and everything to do with practicalities. I was responsible for a fairly big project in 2011 and we decided that Python was

It has nothing to do with loyalists and everything to do with practicalities. I was responsible for a fairly big project in 2011 and we decided that Python was the language of choice for some of the components. We started out with Python 3... but then soon realized that a lot of libraries and tooling that were available for Python 2 were not available for Python 3. So, we had to convert our code to Python 2 and continue because we had already spent some time with it. In hindsight, we should have picked some other language than this god awful mess. It pains me to see that Python is the most used language today given their history of how they handled Python 2/3.