In theory yes. In practice, CPython will not deprecate anything that has significant use, because it forces many people to take action. The only chance you have with such topics is that the community largely stops using the functionality by itself - e.g. they freely decide to migrate to better alternatives. And only when that has naturally grown out of the active codebase, you could decide to push the few remaining users over with a deprecation. This is something on a 10year+ timescale. IMHO it’s still worth thinking about the long-term evolution of the language and you need to set the right alternatives to stimulate natural migration.