And the opposite -- tons of little unimportant scripts sitting around that add a lot of value as a whole, but just aren't worth devoting to rewriting on a whim of poor decision making skills of the Python developer team....

I have Python code dating back to when I was an undergrad. It's sad to see the Python team decide to nuke that. My C code from then (mostly) runs fine still.

The team decided to externalize a massive cost on its community without much benefit. That was sad to see at the time, and it continue to be sad to see.