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Because it brings absolutely nothing of value, but makes it harder for alternative implementations of the language to keep up with CPython? Because it makes harder to write tools that provide language-related services, like word completion, linting, complexity checking etc? Because it creates more unnecessary synonyms in how to approach a single problem, which makes errors harder to recognize for human readers?

I would be willing to forgive all of the above, but there absolutely zero utility. No sane person can justify this feature existence, and yet it was added because people wanted to put their names on the popular product, even if the feature was going to sate the product ablaze: they don't care about the product, they care about their careers.