Running, not just installing. EPEL is straightforward, as you note (frustration aside that it's a bit of fiddling your average user shouldn't need to do). But

Running, not just installing. EPEL is straightforward, as you note (frustration aside that it's a bit of fiddling your average user shouldn't need to do). But the sharp edges pop up later - root installed pip packages not accessible by non root accounts, pip3 mess, challenges / breakages if you're also running various things that choke on python3 being present (puppet is one example).