Universities need to keep up to date rather then just saying "but it still works" and sticking there head in the sand ignoring what the rest of the industry is doing to move forward around them.
The fact that universities are apparently incapable of learning such a basic life skill is terrifying. It's akin to an auto mechanic who doesn't know how to perform an oil change.
Schools should be teaching the fundamentals of programming, which apply across languages. I don't want to say "the language doesn't matter", because COBOL would be a poor choice, but Python 2 vs 3? Whatever.
and lets not forget that with python 2 not being supported anymore, even getting it installed and running in the fist place is going to start getting harder and harder.
So what? Students should not be paying tens of thousands of dollars to learn tooling that will be obsolete within a decade anyway.
All else being equal, sure, start kids off with the most recent tools available. But it wouldn't be near the top of my priority list.
University is not a boot camp.