If the reactions seem bizarre, maybe you're missing something. For me it was more than "just the tech". Python 3.x was not the Python 3000 I was promised for a

If the reactions seem bizarre, maybe you're missing something. For me it was more than "just the tech". Python 3.x was not the Python 3000 I was promised for a long time: many of the additions did not warrant breaking changes (as demonstrated by the backports) and many of Python's deeper warts still remain unaddressed, even today. I think the deeper issue is that at the rate that 2.x got popular, the original motivation, principles and process behind the language's development got diluted. The orchestration of the push for 3.x adoption was not technically motivated in a convincing manner and signaled a change in the process. I stopped trusting the process.