It's not that that future's unimaginable. It's more that it would be nice to have an easy path to knowing how these tools will be funded. They will suck time and effort out of the ecosystem of Python tools, which is fine, except it's not fine if they vanish or decay in X years' time because of funding issues.

I don't know the solution, and I really think these tools look about as great as tools can look, so I'm very keen to use them. I would just like some way to know that they'll be supported for 10 years at least.