Comment by CamouflagedKiwi

> Linux systems commonly already provide an outdated system Python you don’t want to use

They can be a bit long in the tooth, yes, but from past experience another Python version I don't want to use is anything ending in .0, so I can cope with them being a little older.

That's in quite a bit of contrast to something like Go, where I will happily update on the day a new version comes out. Some care is still needed - they allow security changes particularly to be breaking, but at least those tend to be deliberate changes.