I think over time watching this behavior like the downvotes you received, I&#x27;ve figured it out. The idea is that newer folks come into Python, many don&#x27;t want to learn the dominant version in effort to focus on the future as they understand it. So 2 continuing to live is viewed as a threat to that investment. Even though the two aren&#x27;t that different and shouldn&#x27;t matter which one you use, that isn&#x27;t a popular point to bring up. It&#x27;s a bit of a &quot;newer version is always better&quot; trap. That&#x27;s true in general for software like a web browser, but not true for programming languages if they contain breaks or gain feature bloat (both are Python3 flaws). Conservative languages in both of those regards, are usually held in higher regard. It&#x27;s also not a zero-sum game where for 3 to succeed, 2 must fail. Not that this is ever going to happen anyway. Thanks to how the PSF and associated handled this, the Python3 mistakes were never corrected. We&#x27;re stuck with a permanent split for a long time as a result. It&#x27;s tragic really, coming from someone who programs in Python daily. There are many ways to resolve it too, but the CPython core dev team refuse to consider any of them.<p>As a result, guys like you who are thinking rationally become the problem for being &#x27;lazy&#x27; (acting in your own best interests which is exactly what everyone is doing) and are the enemy. People, especially newcomers, get tired of waiting for Python2 to &#x27;die&#x27; and instead of put the onus on those who made the mistakes with Python3 (they&#x27;ve stuck it out, refusing to correct their own mistakes because that&#x27;s more work), it becomes twisted and you are now the problem in their mind. Even though you were probably a part of what made Python successful to begin with. Amazing how that pans out, right?<p>Usually these illusions go away once a full time job is found, there are some but the vast majority are companies with big Python2 codebases that have features to deliver. If they move services anywhere from CPython it&#x27;s to PyPy for the performance gain.