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There's still a lot of existing and new Python 2 code being written. Idealistically we would all be on Python 3, but software is a messy land.
It's been ten years, so it's gone beyond "idealistically".
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Still not distributed by default on Mac or Ubuntu long term release, unlike 2.
The current Ubuntu long-term support release is Xenial, which comes with only Python 3 installed. If you're talking about Trusty, its support is ending fairly soon. On Xenial, you have to separately install an optional package for Python 2. When you try to run /usr/bin/python on a fresh Xenial install, it'll tell you that you need to install a package such as python-minimal==2.7.11, whereas /usr/bin/python3 is alread…