[jacobmischka]

It's not silly. One of Arch's primary draws is being the first to get updates and integrate new technologies. Other distros will follow soon enough if there really aren't any others.

It's not as if python2 suddenly doesn't exist, it's not terribly life-changing to add a 2 in the places where the scripts are still on the last version.

I'm glad to be on a system where the default Python version isn't one that will be officially unsupported in three years.

Edit: It's worth pointing out that this switch was made 6 years ago and the world is still spinning.

https://www.archlinux.org/news/python-is-now-python-3/

[JeremyBanks]

They can adopt Python 3 and drop Python 2 without adding this link which encourages a convention of /usr/bin/env python for Python 3 on their platform, creating unnecessary incompatibility with other platforms.

As you said, it's old news now, and not the end of the world. But I'm hoping others don't follow.