The price stuff can change through taxation that makes new plastic more expensive than recycled plastic.
As we all know, taxation is super popular and has never been controversial, ever.
At the very least flaskepant has worked great for like a century here in Norway. Always kind of surprising when other countries don't have it.
At the user level they're just tools, not programming languages. Python users are generally moving to
ruff
(anduv
) because of ergonomics: It works well and really fast which makes for a smooth experience in-editor. Plus using fewer tools to achieve a similar result is generally desirable.And for a complete newbie like someone taking a course, I think there's no "sticking with" to speak of. Might as well just skip over the tools people are migrating away from and start with the tool people are migrating to.