Yeah python has become more and more version and deps hell. Honestly 3 was all cost and no benefit and we'd all be fine if we'd stuck with 2. There were also some early missteps in api design like async and pandas and matplotlib that we all now have to live with. I even ran into problems with PIL changing API for textsize recently. Just a thousand cuts.

And yet for simple little standalone programs and notebooks, particularly for science, it is super simple and natural to turn to it.