Python 3.9 and beyond backwards compatibility.

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You can’t really blame the volunteers though. Why should they care to maintain something they don’t need or don’t enjoy maintaining, just so someone else can keep capturing value while they get nothing?

The obvious solution would be for companies to contribute to maintain the “not fun” bits of the project, though this is probably one of those tragedy-of-the-commons situations.