They're not going to sort out the mess. GVR is 100% stubborn on having 2 and 3 live alongside each other till everyone moves to 3. He won't be combining them in any way in a Python 4.0 and slowly removing the Python2 stuff.

I personally won't be moving till GAE, Azure, Amazon, PyPy, PyInstaller, and all Linux distros make the jump. Which at this rate appears to be never.

I'm going to do exactly what you're suggesting, and move off of Python entirely at some point. I'm truly amazed that GVR is dancing with death to kill Python over unicode and cruft. I'm hoping Python (2) becomes the community version and 3 remains the experimental branch.