[fault1]

> Tech is supposed to just be tech, but when the community behaves this badly about adopting improvements how can that not influence your decision to invest in that tech?

What you say was bad about it? And who were the bad people specifically? The people who were using python 2 or python 3?

For what it's worth, python3 >= 3.0 && python <= 3.2 were hideously broken in their unicode support. Arguably had worse/unusable uncode relative to python 2.6 or 2.7.

So there was a huge failure to launch type of problem, especially given how long python3 had been development.

It most definitely left a very sour taste in many people's mouth that didn't start dissipating till 3.5 or 3.6 when enough "killer" features had accumulated.

Even then, for a lot of usages, python 2.7 'just works'.