This makes me sad. Plain unittest is very bare-bones, pytest has a bewildering array of add-ons and little guidance about which ones to use... and also the whole non-unittest-testing thing too. Nose had really good defaults out-of-the-box (including capturing stdout/stderr/logging) and a lot of high-quality plugins bundled with it.

Of course, I'm sad to see nose wither, but not so sad that I want to take up maintainership myself.