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Why bother? Because Python 2 is EOL in a little less than 2 years.

The NHS chose not to upgrade to from Windows XP and 2003 and look where that got them last year: a massive crypto locker infection.

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FWIW Win10 was affected by that same horrific SMB RCE vuln. So the implied argument that 10 has been immune or even much less vulnerable to ransomware over the past year or two is on shaky ground, though I agree it probably will start to have some merit going forward.

I suppose unless someone either forks it or keeps delivering patches outside the Python project. That wasn't really an option for Windows XP, but I'm quite sure if it had been then someone would be doing it.

This is already true -- tauthon is a updated, patched Python 2 fork. https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon

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