Agreed. Also this:<p>&quot;So expect Python 4 to not do anything more drastic than to remove maybe deprecated modules from the standard library.&quot;<p>But <i>why</i> break all the existing libraries that use those modules, even if there&#x27;s now &quot;better&quot; ways. In every comparison I&#x27;ve ever seen on performance, robustness, etc python always loses to the other big languages. Except in one area: the availability of user-land submitted packages and extensions. So why break them for a little perf boost?