Too many ugly renames, too few alternatives of doing things. To be honest the only attractive thing to me is all the libraries that they support but I don't find the language itself interesting.
I have been using Python full time for the last 7 years and I very rarely have to call either of those function.
> Too few alternatives of doing things.
Can you explain that as well? What do you mean by alternatives of doing things? Like say you want to read a file and you might want to use a wider variety of options when opening the file handle or say you want to parse JSON and you'd like standard library to have more parsers available?
That's what you want for maintainability. I'm not interested in maintaining a codebase where every programmer have their own idea of how something should be done. Of course, you have code reviews for this kind of thing. Except when the code is already written. And when it is not, arguing over minor points is an unnecessary timesink.
It's just that if you want to use a few new language niceties like range-based for loops then you'll need to conform to that convention.
In fact it should never happen, that's what the `iter` and `next` builtins are for. The only use case for calling __next__ by hand is iffy as hell, it's overloading it while inheriting from an iterator.