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The word "obsolete" has implications, so if he doesn't want to imply those things, he should pick a different word.
Such as? I'd usually use "deprecated" to imply what you think "obsolete" implies; "obsolete" simply means that there's something newer intended to replace the older one.
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Arch is not derived from Gentoo. I don't know what that guy was smoking when he said that.
Arch is related to Gentoo in that both offer rolling updates and try to keep you on the bleeding edge. They differ in that Gentoo is a primarily source-based system with binary packages bolted on and Arch is a primarily binary-based system with source bolted on (admittedly, Arch has better source support than Gentoo has binary). Arch also compiles it's packages for i686, to appease the gentoo-ricers. Their goals are…
rolling release does not mean you have to upgrade to python 3 if you still want to use python 2.6. it is very trivial to configure pacman to ignore certain packages.