I'd otherwise agree but this problem seems unique to Python. I don't have problems like this with npm or composer or rubygems. Or at least very infrequently. It's almost every time I need to update dependencies or install on a new machine that the Python ecosystem decides I'm not worthy.
I think pip made some poor design choices very early, but pip stuck around for a long time and people kept using it. Of course things got out of control, then people kept inventing new package management until uv comes along. I don't know enough about Python to understand how people could live with that for so long.
honestly until UV I thought this was the only sane way to package a python app, now it's still the only sane way and I'll use uv in the dockerfile which is honestly more complicated than their docs or reason would expect.
