Kodi 18 (and earlier) is basically a rising security risk due to the use of Python 2.
We cannot and will not in good conscience leave users on an insecure system, as if there was to be an event via a Python 2 security hole then we would get the blame.
Most people would not update anything unless they were forced to (which is why the Play Store has updates on by default), so the hole would be there and growing forever.
The functionality of Matrix will increase as the current addons which are Python 2 are forked and/or updated to Python 3. Those that aren't are obviously not being cared for by their authors and no-one wants to step up to them, so there's an argument that they should be retired anyway. All of this has the effect of cleaning things out and removing a lot of those unsupported addons.
And to be honest, many of the complaints we are getting are from users whose
banned addons (wiki) are no longer working and they can no longer get their pirated movies and TV shows. And in those cases we have absolutely no sympathy and are quite happy if they uninstall Kodi and stop blackening our brand name.
For those of you who are not in that category but have addons which have not yet been updated, then the way to go is to contact the addon authors (many will have threads here) and ask them to update their addons. If they are active then they may do so, and if they are not then unless things are forked then those addons are unsupported and longer-term would be broken anyway at some point. Many authors are actively doing that now (some don't do it until final versions of Kodi are released), but in this case it's belated due to the necessary Python migration causing a breaking change.
