Then don't. Stick with Python 2 and accept that means you're going to stop getting work done for you for free in 3 years time.
Because one is essentially EOL?
Well, I'm for user driven EOL, as opposed to top-down, we-know-better EOLining.
And the latter doesn't work so well thus far for Python 3.
If enough people like Python 2 that much, I guess someone else can take over maintaining and developing this language version past the official EOL date.
Like Guido's employer, for example. (see pyston)
I think you see this argument used a lot when it comes to Python 3 about it not working so well. I don't see the maintainers changing their minds about EOL on python 2 so either switch to Python 3 or to another language. There is so much toxicity around the Python community because of people thinking they are entitled to have everyone still support Python 2.
Because it is and always has been a sensible middle ground between rewriting everything for every release and never upgrading.