[AsyncAwait]

> for no good reason.

There was good reason, to move to the latest version of a particular software, since that's kind of the whole philosophy of Arch, in fact the reason I originally switched to it in 2011 was because I had enough of me not being able to use the latest software on Ubuntu.

> Why should users of older distros have to add a symlink, when before Arch everyone could be sure that '/usr/bin/python' if present would be python2

If you made no effort to detect the actual version, it's wrong to assume that. It could've just as well been python 1.

[Zancarius]

> in fact the reason I originally switched to it in 2011 was because I had enough of me not being able to use the latest software on Ubuntu.

It's funny. My reason for switching to Arch was almost the opposite. I grew tired of having to rebuild the latest software in Gentoo every time I updated and ran into someone on Slashdot who encouraged me to give Arch a try. Sure, there's more prebuilt packages, mirrors, etc for Gentoo these days, but then you're in the same boat as everyone else (waiting for the package to be built).