Honestly, I just found Python 3 to introduce a whole bunch of complexity when working with text. Why can't it just be a byte buffer? Why must you complicate int

Honestly, I just found Python 3 to introduce a whole bunch of complexity when working with text. Why can't it just be a byte buffer? Why must you complicate interacting with the OS so much? Text is just a buffer of mostly UTF-8 encoded bytes, why make it needlessly hard?