My Big Sur install here has 2.7.16, which isn't even the last Python 2 release (it seems 2.7.18 from April 2020 is), and they don't intend to do any further security updates. (With, of course, the security issue that this version will likely never receive Kevin: that's a good point. If it weren't, I think this wouldn't be a big deal at all: just wrap the tool in your custom build of Python, PHP, whathaveyou.

I was trying to do this the other day with a PDF Service - add a code signature, wrap it in a bundle, all that - and it's a bad, bad UX. I hope Apple or some third party vastly improves the experience of packaging a script, though.

Like, this feels like one of the last vestiges of the Bertrand Serlet / NeXT era of making macOS a great workstation OS (see also: Xgrid, Xsan, etc.).

It does worsen the out-of-the-box experience, but I'm not sure there's much of an audience for 'has a Python script they need to run, but also doesn't have a package manager or other development tooling installed'.

Remove python 2.7 mac big sur