For the simple case, I don't consider "print(foo)" more complex than "print foo"; if anything, it avoids introducing additional syntax, and instead just provides another built-in function. And in more complex cases, such as printing to a file object, the syntax seems far more straightforward: "print(foo, file=f)" versus "print >>f, foo". Beyond that, the print function can do some things the print statement simply can't, such as print without a trailing space or newline.

"Python 2.x is legacy, Python 3.x is the present and future of the language"

So you have it backwards there, captain.

print versus print() is a red herring if there ever was one.