Python finally offloads some batteries

You have the right to fork (which someone has already exercised, see the Tauthon project). If you don't want to do that, then you were (presumably) expecting to get something out of the PSF that you can't get out of a fork, and the PSF is not obligated to give that something to you if they do not wish to do so.

That pretty much confirms my point, though. There were supposedly tens of thousands of developers out there all dependent on Python 2. They couldn't *possibly* move to Python 3. They insisted Python 2 had to be maintained. A few of them, like you, may have inquired about contributing to maintenance of Python 2.

But where is the big effort to actually do it? I can't see one. There are a few basically-dead projects out there to maintain forks of Python 2.7. I don't think (?) any of them are still going. So despite all the handwringing and complaining, it turns out that the *revealed preference* of those people is actually that it's less work and more desirable for them to just port to Python 3.

It's a lot easier to complain or to inquire about something than to actually *do* it. If it were really important to you to maintain Python 2, you would have done it with a bunch of other people for whom it was important.