Your distro exists to provide other people's software. The distro doesn't develop the software themselves. The Python 2 organization has decided to end Python 2

Your distro exists to provide other people's software. The distro doesn't develop the software themselves. The Python 2 organization has decided to end Python 2. It is completely and decidedly unsupported by anyone as of over two years ago. If you want to complain about Python 2 being unsupported by the Python foundation, you're free to. But no distro can in good conscience keep distributing a thoroughly unsupported piece of software that's probably full of security bugs. Regarding the "year of the Linux desktop" thing: Apple is much more aggressive than any Linux distro when it comes to dropping deprecated stuff and forcing their users to move on. Apple hasn't shipped Python 2 for a long time, they ship Python 3.