A quick update on the Python/Homebrew situation; it looks like node-gyp has been updated to correctly find Python 2.7.x.

With that change, I’ve now removed Python 2.7.x from my .bash_profile. I’m still leaving python@2 linked via brew (brew link python@2 --force), so that I can can run python2 for access to a Python 2.7.x environment.