> try explaining that to a bunch of business school people

Never mind them! I have been programming for decades and have been defeated twice by Python and its disrespect for semantic versioning

Those version 3s often introduce breaking changes.

I continue to be amazed and astounded that it is so popular. A poster child for "do not choose software based principally on popularity". Being unpopular is a handicap, but being popular - just look at Python. The Python ecosystem is a *nightmare*