I really wouldn't mind Python being faster than it is and I really didn't mind at all getting an practically free ~30% performance increase just by updating to

I really wouldn't mind Python being faster than it is and I really didn't mind at all getting an practically free ~30% performance increase just by updating to 3.11. There's tons of applications which just passively benefit from these optimizations. Sure, you might argue "but you shouldn't have written that parser or that UI handling a couple thousand items in Python" but lots of people do and did just that.