there is not really a good solution to keep it backward compatible, because Series.dt.week is deprecated in 1.1, and Series.dt.isocalendard didn't exist before 1.1 https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/pull/33220. So I think restricting pandas to >1.1 is fine.
Following https://github.com/ramp-kits/air_passengers/pull/12 the starting kit with pandas <1.1.0 fails with,
there is not really a good solution to keep it backward compatible, because Series.dt.week is deprecated in 1.1, and Series.dt.isocalendard didn't exist before 1.1 https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/pull/33220. So I think restricting pandas to >1.1 is fine.