Few to no one in userspace asked for this problem. For me, it's not a problem. I suspect a lot of people will eventually see it my way. Instead of learning/porting from 2 to 3, they'll stick with 2 and pickup something else like Go. I believe adding Go to my toolbelt was a much better use of my time. While there's other, maybe better, choices than Go, my argument is that it's so easy to learn that it's just about as difficult as the transition/porting of existing projects that Python3 would've been.

I personally gain little to nothing by spending any time on Python3. No amount of features, moving distros to 3 by default, or anything else can convince me. All job prospects 2, and all the libraries support 2. No one cares if my resume has Python3 on it, but adding Golang alongside Python2 opened up a lot of opportunities. If a Python(2) user wanted to spend time on Rust, that would also be a great use of time.

For each person I see demanding Python3 support, I want to see that person spending hours, weeks, months, porting everything they can find to 3 and then maintaining it. Because the rest of us don't care.

For me, Python3 has 1 main feature. It enables you to beg library maintainers to port to 3.