It does offer some things, but does it offer a "divide the community, halt the old version and still go nowhere much adoption-wise after 5 whole years" worth of things?

I started using Python when "Python 3000" (as 3 was called then) was just a pipe dream for the distant future. For all the trouble with the migration, it doesn't really offer much groundbreaking things.

Removal of GIL, a JIT, a few times or an order of magnitude faster, an integrated new async model etc would have been great. UTF-8 and a few tricks that could just as easily be added in 2.8? Not so much.