[Chris2048]

> In both cases you can say "well someone else will just come along and support it", and for py2 they did, for a bit

Was python-2 handed off to new maintainers? News to me.

> why are you working on it in the way you want rather than the way I want

Is "it" python-2 or python-3?

This isn't users demanding py3 devs support py2 - it's users asking that devs who no longer want to support py2 to hand it off to those that do, rather than blocking it.