> ceasing development of the language Python 2 is wholly sensible, ceasing development of the implementation Python 2 (CPython specifically) is not
Development of CPython 2 has ended, bugs and all. It's past its end of life, this is well known and has been known for a long time. Any remaining bugs are the problem of the users, not the responsibility of the former developers.
Sure people will fork it and do stuff with those forks, but those will no longer be new versions of CPython, they will be new versions of some-fork-of-CPython.
Development of CPython 2 has ended, bugs and all. It's past its end of life, this is well known and has been known for a long time. Any remaining bugs are the problem of the users, not the responsibility of the former developers.
Sure people will fork it and do stuff with those forks, but those will no longer be new versions of CPython, they will be new versions of some-fork-of-CPython.