Scientist in philosophy, not scientist in profession. I would think of it like going to the moon. Curiosity took us there, but a lack of a financial motive to

Scientist in philosophy, not scientist in profession. I would think of it like going to the moon. Curiosity took us there, but a lack of a financial motive to continue going there made future missions more difficult, to the point where we stopped going. People have effectively gotten around Python's GIL for most engineering purposes. Those who remain aren't doing so because they have a problem to solve, they remain because the GIL is is the problem to solve. An end, rather than a means. This makes it... well you're right, not leisurely, but certainly more pensive an activity than trying to solve another problem and having to "overcome" the GIL. I doubt anyone these days would get paid to fully remove the GIL implementation in CPython. And yes I get it, you're old as fuck and know more than everyone younger than you. Neat.