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He asked her twice to be more specific about what she was arguing, which seems fair after a long tirade of shitting on anything and everything non optimal about the stdlib without any specific point. And he then left during Q&A which is totally fair, he’s his own person and it wasn’t his Q&A, people are blowing this out of proportion.

We weren't there. He might've needed to be someplace else.

People leave all the time during talks, and I've been to talks where most people left as soon as Q&A started.

I think he was probably frustrated by Python 2 support. If twisted has 50% userbase in Python 2 that don't upgrade and requiring more volunteer time on Python 2 just handcuffs language development on Python 3. Python 2 has been deprecated for long time and if people still want free Python 2 support I think it's just indigenous to the language contributors to spend their already constraint free time on Python 2.

What "conduct"? It's a simple disagreement, not some big dramatic fight.