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timedelta arithmetic is 100% portable now, and wholly 
explainable in terms of universally understood integer 
arithmetic. Throw floats into it, and that's lost.
That said, I don't have a strong objection to complicating the 
implementation if there _are_ strong use cases. The OP's 
example isn't "a use case": it's not worth anything to let 
someone multiply a timedelta by 0.5 instead of dividing by 2. 
I don't have a use case to offer in its place (never felt a need 
here).
If someone wants to work on it, note that a timedelta can 
contain more than 53 bits of information, so, e.g., trying to 
represent a timedelta as an IEEE double-precision number of 
microseconds can lose information. This makes a high-
qualty "computed as if to infinite precision with one rounding 
at the end" implementation of mixed datetime/float arithmetic 
tricky to do right.