It reads as though you generally do agree with the flat is better than nested though; your argument appears to be more against how the system is currently organ

It reads as though you generally do agree with the flat is better than nested though; your argument appears to be more against how the system is currently organized, rather than being concerned with the ability to write libraries without worrying much about namespace clashes. I'd love to see the entire python standard library moved into a root-level "python" namespace; I'm guessing that would be about as popular as curly braces with the general python crowd... Heck, even the ability to root your imports, like import .email would bring in the root-level email library, would be pretty nice. I'm sure I've seen the idea shot down before, but I can't recall what the reasoning was.