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Yeah, I agree that 2.0 would be a great time to really innovate. I understand breaking sites with a point upgrade could be met with a lot of resistance. What they have built though is probably good enough that they could soon afford to branch off with something new for 2.0 and those that don't want to rebuild their code to take advantage could happily stay on the 1.x branch.

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That sure worked magnificently for Python and PHP.

The problem with branching off like that is that now you're suddenly faced with a fragmented community. The worst thing of which being that everything is written for the "old" branch. Then nobody wants to use the new branch because there are less batteries included.

When nobody wants to use the new version, no new batteries get added.

It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

You might be right with Python, I think with PHP though it was pain that was needed if the language was going to be around long term.

PHP's growing pains are more akin to a bonsai kitten than a pre-teen.

Transition to Python 3 is going well and according to schedule AFAIK.

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