> Personally I feel like they should have yanked Python 2 in Jessie (Debian 8) in 2015, more realistically in Stretch in 2017. For example GnuRadio started sup

> Personally I feel like they should have yanked Python 2 in Jessie (Debian 8) in 2015, more realistically in Stretch in 2017. For example GnuRadio started supporting Python 3 with GnuRadio 3.8 released in 2019, and then you had to port all your programs using it to this version. So no, in 2017, the ecosystem was not ready.