Yeah, this really didn't state anything novel that anyone who's even aware of Python 3.8 wouldn't have already known...

I agree with you wholeheartedly. My expectation based on the domain was perhaps there were performance regressions still being worked out in Python 3.8 that would be revealed, but in fact performance isn't even mentioned.

Maybe I could write a bot for this and then make post about the creation of the bot.