Linux and Windows keep supporting even blatant bugs for decades, in order not to break old working code that relies on these bugs. The ecosystem keeps evolving healthily under that constraint.
Breaking working code for an essentially stylistic change of API is not even malice. It's plain stupidity.
An OS isn't touched anywhere near as much by a diverse user base as a language and ecosystem like Python is. It can be more or less guaranteed that everyone building things directly on top of an OS already has a very good idea of what they're doing, and are likely aware of any strange quirks or workarounds they may need to consider. And if they don't, they know how and where to seek help. This is definitely not the case with most Python users, and as such, when bugs and bad practices can be remedied or mitigated they should be, so the many who just want to get their pipeline or automation scripts going can do so without polluting 101 channels with low quality questions and time-wasting problems.
