Let me add these types of users rarely think about sponsoring such ‘important’ projects that they seem to not be able to live happily without.
It’s called open source entitlement. The kind of people who fill up your issues and don’t push PRs and only donate with their melodramatic keyboard.
The "magic date" when the breaking update came was 15 years ago. Python gave this developer 10 years to get with the program and update to the new version, and Debian kept it alive for an additional 5 just in case.
If a developer can't get their act together to change over their codebase to preserve minimum functionality despite FIFTEEN YEARS of warning, I don't want to be using their app because who knows what other obvious problems they are ignoring.