Forsooth, let not the accustomed ways be altered, whether in the scribings of interface conventions nor the syntax of code, preserving the familiar traditions against the unsettling currents of innovation.
The fact that threading allows me to write code that does not hurt my eyes and does not need a ton of exceptions in the tooling that helps code/APIs improve is a feature. For those who want to read documentation from 15 years ago, resources exist and core Python maintainers do not need to spend maintenance time worrying about it.
I’m happy to volunteer to update the docstrings & documentation in the standard library if that would help.