How did this get to be such a contentious issue? While I've been focused on other languages this year, my Python side projects have all gradually moved towards

How did this get to be such a contentious issue? While I've been focused on other languages this year, my Python side projects have all gradually moved towards pipenv. I still have a few locally shared virtual environments, and setup.py is still the default for distribution. I also sometimes embed into uwsgi, but I don't know of anyone else that bothers with that. We're using pex at work. Overall the article seems hyperbolic, relative to the actual events cited. Packaging is a work in progress everywhere.