python -o foo.exe foo.py
at the command line, and get an executable, without any further effort.
Hence making the resulting program useless to users of most operating systems.
Let's ignore for the moment whether including py2exe as a "battery" is a desirable thing from an abstract point of view. We may legitimately differ about that.
We should not forget in our enthusiasm for open source that while "users of most operating systems" might not find py2exe useful, "most users of operating systems" may well, since Windows users outnumber the rest several times.
There's nothing wrong with open source projects catering to a market, and there's nothing wrong with running open source software on a proprietary operating system. To behave otherwise might reduce the growth opportunities for Python and its community.
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