Maven/pip is still a good excuse. I don't want to wait x months until a new release of some library lands in Debian repos. Portability – not so much, but then

Maven/pip is still a good excuse. I don't want to wait x months until a new release of some library lands in Debian repos. Portability – not so much, but then it saves you so much headache because switching from 16.04 to 18.04 should not break anything in your system.