Yeah, utcnow is completely broken. They should have fixed it when they created datetime.timezone.utc, but they didn't. The recommendation is to use datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc) instead. utcnow should be deprecated and eventually removed.
I recently learned that there is datetime.UTC which is an alias of datetime.timezone.utc
It helps a bit with the verbosity:
from datetime import datetime, UTC
datetime.now(UTC)
That's from 3.11 onwards.