As many people have observed here, this is a couple of Steering Council members showing activity. Getting one's PEPs accepted has a totally inflated weight in the Python "community". The more, the better (by contrast very few people care about perfect and bug-free code).

So, if this thing is accepted, it pads the resume of certain people even more. And many software orgs will have one additional week of job security by rewriting existing code. It's a win-win situation.

Ever since the walrus operator coup Python has descended into madness and make-work initiatives.