The transition from Python 2 to 3 was one worst things that could happened to the whole community. The costs of the transition never justified the benefits. The new features were negligible at best or a regression at worst and in some cases performance got even worse. One could even assume flat out sabotage.
Let's just hope there will never be a Python 4 and the developers now finally start focusing on the greatest flaw of Python: performance.
What's crazy is if they had removed the GIL python 3 adoption would have been huge. All python 3 offered were marginal benefits for adopting functionality that broke huge code bases.
Let's just hope there will never be a Python 4 and the developers now finally start focusing on the greatest flaw of Python: performance.