No really, what was the relevance of that comment? A task from a decade ago, with maintenance reaching end of life in two months, and they're off-topic boasting about "already starting" it. What, they think it's early and applause-worthy? They're trying to show that even Guido had to deal with it? Or that even with Guido they couldn't complete it quickly? "Here are some words about Python to make the PR representative look hip and with it"?
Nothing about that interjection reflects particularly well on Dropbox - it's far off the tone of the rest of the post, they would have been better off not mentioning it at all.
Not all companies have the big tech or mid/early stage VC money to throw around. Who knows what kind of other tech debt Dropbox has accumulated.
It says "He has already put into motion the conversion of the Dropbox server code from Python 2 to Python 3. "
"already" refers to "sometime in the past 6 years".
Perhaps it’s already done, in which case this word choice is poor.
He also spent large amount of time working on mypy (type checker) which my understanding is also is used for the migration to address unicode issues.