It seems Python has firmly reached its "Wikipedia notability" era, with busybodies that code little but discuss much dominating and ruining all progress. They make up stuff that reads insane to anyone doing actual work, like the "maintenance burden" of the cgi module:

https://github.com/python/cpython/commits/3.12/Lib/cgi.py

Turns out most maintenance this thing received is the various attempts of removing it.