Rewrite from scratch is exactly what the Python ecosystem needs more of. The strong push to always contribute to the existing projects rather than starting new

Rewrite from scratch is exactly what the Python ecosystem needs more of. The strong push to always contribute to the existing projects rather than starting new ones in the Python community is what caused the previous subpar state of tooling. I think Astral is also picking a good middle-ground where they still aim to build as much as possible on existing Python standards (and help contributing to new ones), so it's still building on what has been done in the past.