> Drawback: it is a backward incompatible change. Code which worked by luck previously no longer works. I'm talking about applications which rely on __del__() methods being calling in an exact order and expect Python being in a specific state.
Python does not provide any warranty in which order finalizers are called:
https://docs.python.org/dev/reference/datamodel.html#object.__del__
PyPy is a good concrete example of finalizers being called in a different order.
An application must not rely on the finalizer order, but manage resources explicitly by calling close() methods or using context managers. Python emits ResourceWarning on this purpose.