You should get Guido to opine on this. I think you're making this more official and pervasive and prescriptive than he intended.

There is a difference between making a helpful utility available versus trying to make everyone change their code to use it.

I made this a draft PR since the doc says

This is used for conversion to :class:`fractions.Fraction`

but this is not yet true at the moment. So it depends on either#15327 (by me) or#15329 (by@serhiy-storchaka).

The linked issue was closed (#82017 (comment)) -- should this PR remain?

A

Let's close it, since everything else related to this was closed.