[chrisjj]

Then why not provide one yourself?

[ZeroAurora]

Forking is a good option for companies, but not a good option for sole developers: one doesn't have that much energy.

Switching to other libraries like requests and aiohttp and supporting them by contributing is clearly a better option.

[nateb2022]

https://github.com/MarkusSintonen/pyreqwest is a great alternative, much more performant than requests/httpx/aiohttp, and provides an easy httpx compatible wrapper for migration.

[nijave]

No need. There are plenty of other active alternatives