If enough people like Python 2 that much, I guess someone else can take over maintaining and developing this language version past the official EOL date.
I think you see this argument used a lot when it comes to Python 3 about it not working so well. I don't see the maintainers changing their minds about EOL on python 2 so either switch to Python 3 or to another language. There is so much toxicity around the Python community because of people thinking they are entitled to have everyone still support Python 2.
And the latter doesn't work so well thus far for Python 3.