> Python 3 almost killed Python.
People were being crybabies; the critics were extremely vocal and few. Python 3 improved the language in every way and the tooling to upgrade remains unmatched.
The real problem here was releasing 3.0 as if it was stable, when the real usable version was 3.3/3.4
Python 3 was a disaster and enterprises were still undertaking pointless 2->3 upgrade projects 10 years later