I was talking with some contributors at PyCon last month and there was a consensus that Python 3 is actually preferable. There's issues to be resolved that are more important than switching the version to 3 so the work is focused on these for now.
It boils down to the argument that "if there is no existing Python code relying on Python 2 semantics, why even bother making a Python 2 version, why not skip straight to Python 3 and not introduce the switching problem later?" There's a small matter of the Python 3 version not being the prime target of PyPy but they are updating it and progressing it forward so it's not any kind of roadblock just a little less than perfect.
It boils down to the argument that "if there is no existing Python code relying on Python 2 semantics, why even bother making a Python 2 version, why not skip straight to Python 3 and not introduce the switching problem later?" There's a small matter of the Python 3 version not being the prime target of PyPy but they are updating it and progressing it forward so it's not any kind of roadblock just a little less than perfect.