[actsasbuffoon]

Making print a statement again could break a lot of Python 3 code. In Python 2 it's a statement, and statements can't appear in lambdas. In Python 3 it's a function call, and function calls are expressions, which can appear in lambdas.

I don't think it could (easily) be resolved by treating it like a function when followed by parens and a statement otherwise. For illustration, consider what happens when you use parens after print in Python 2: the parens are treated like they would be in a mathematical expression — only there for the sake of order of operations. The parens effectively disappear when parsing.