True, it's an incredibly personal and situational post with him using the word "me" throughout. The title choice is just really poor it seems.
Although I'm someone who doesn't develop in python, I have toyed around with the packages and versions for dependencies for other projects and tools I use. At first I assumed that "latest is greatest" but recently came to understand that it's not the case as far as practicality is concerned. Perhaps it is involved with the rather irritating versioning (python3, pip3, etc. - I've found the same thing to be true on archlinux), but I think a lot of it is definitely as somebody else said above, the lack of updated libraries.
Although I'm someone who doesn't develop in python, I have toyed around with the packages and versions for dependencies for other projects and tools I use. At first I assumed that "latest is greatest" but recently came to understand that it's not the case as far as practicality is concerned. Perhaps it is involved with the rather irritating versioning (python3, pip3, etc. - I've found the same thing to be true on archlinux), but I think a lot of it is definitely as somebody else said above, the lack of updated libraries.