“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL”

Guido van Rossum has given his life for this language and besides the obligatory 'thanks for all the fish' there isn't even a single person who stops the clock to evaluate what went wrong that they pushed out the person that started this all.

Instead it's 'kthxbye' and they're already dividing up the cake to see who gets to rule.

Not the nicest moment in the history of FOSS, I wonder what kind of a mess will ensue when Linus steps down.

True, although sometimes there isn't much to be done. He mentions he is tired of fighting and, with such an enormous project, how do you solve that?

This does not bode well for the future of Python, though. The ecosystem is fragmented as it is, I can only imagine how things will look like without the well known leader.