I'm a Rubyist. Why are Python users so doubled down on keeping on with Python 2? I can't imagine using Ruby 1.8.x at this point, and even older versions seem well outside the realm of consideration.
There's a lot of good reasons Python 2 was stickier than Ruby 1.8.x, the biggest one of which is that Py 2 had had much broader use over a longer time than Ruby 1.8, which meant there were lots of people depending on lots of basically “done” code with non-active maintenance in lots of little but overlapping niches, while Ruby was mostly Rails and a few other big actively-maintained ecosystems that amounted to essentially the whole community.
And the move off Ruby 1.8 still took years, was often bitterly divisive, and with plenty of talk of need to fork 1.8 and continue maintenance because large chunks of the community would never move (which, as with Python, continued even after most of the community had already moved.) It's just that's all a few years back (a lifetime in tech industry time) so most people forget that it happened.