[throwaway5959]

All SWEs at Google are well compensated. Not all of them would be a good fit for maintaining Python.

[CydeWeys]

Then I don't understand the point you were making in your first post.

[throwaway5959]

A waste of talent not of cash.

[CydeWeys]

That's the thing, it's not clear that the Python core engineers are more talented than other Google SWEs on average. You have all sorts of talented engineers working on all sorts of random projects within Google.