It's gotten far, FAR worse since Guido stopped having as much guidance. The increase in mandatory updates at regular intervals is a recipe for disaster in mos

It's gotten far, FAR worse since Guido stopped having as much guidance. The increase in mandatory updates at regular intervals is a recipe for disaster in most cases, as it is in python. Also, to pile on top of the stdlib problems - it's probably clear to most everyone at this point - but NVIDIA and Google (tensorflow) are really some of the biggest reasons python sucks in this way. They're the ones that cause most of the breakage. Starting with Nvidia making breaking changes, which then propagates to tensorflow et al, and then to enormous number of packages that depend on these fundamental packages. So to summarize, it's mostly Nvidia's fault.