Well to be fair the 2020 end of life date was announced almost a decade ago. That said, I know that fortune 500 companies that used 2.7 to develop new code in 2017 -- which was a mistake -- mostly because they were tied to old version of RHEL and they were too lazy to try to get Python 3 to work on an old version of RHEL.

So 2020 rolled around and the pypi libraries they were using were no longer supported even though RHEL would support python 2.7. So yeah, it was a really bad experience for everyone involved.