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by throwaway81523 8 days ago
Python 3 got very slow update and poor acceptance precisely because it DIDN'T fix major problems, it only tweaked around the edges of minor ones. So people stayed with Python 2 as long as possible. Here's a post from 2014 that I bookmarked and it explains things a decade+ later:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7802575

From the link: "You know why I'm not running python 3? Because it doesn't solve a single problem I have. It doesn't solve anyone's problems. It solves imaginary problems, while creating real problems."