Critics of Python don't get "silenced in their bubble" generally, just ignored.
Critics of the PSF, well, that's another story.
As for complexity, it's not so much that new features are added, but that people are using Python in larger systems, and demanding things to help manage the complexity (that end up adding more complexity of their own). The Zen of Python is forgotten - and that's largely on the users.
pytest is full of magic, but at least it uses that magic to present a pleasant UI. Certainly better than unittest's JUnit-inspired design. But it'd be that much nicer to have something that gets there directly rather than wrapping the bad stuff, and which honours "simple is better than complex" and "explicit is better than implicit" (test discovery, but also fixtures).
It is typical for a variety of reasons. Someone complains about breakage and is banned. Later, when the right people complain about the same issue, the breakage is reverted.
The same pattern happens over and over. The SC and the PSF are irresponsible, incompetent and malicious.
Critics of the PSF, well, that's another story.
As for complexity, it's not so much that new features are added, but that people are using Python in larger systems, and demanding things to help manage the complexity (that end up adding more complexity of their own). The Zen of Python is forgotten - and that's largely on the users.
pytest is full of magic, but at least it uses that magic to present a pleasant UI. Certainly better than unittest's JUnit-inspired design. But it'd be that much nicer to have something that gets there directly rather than wrapping the bad stuff, and which honours "simple is better than complex" and "explicit is better than implicit" (test discovery, but also fixtures).