Exactly. NPM gets a lot of hate but lockfiles and local install by default is great. The default mode should not be global installation. Also imo virtual enviro

Exactly. NPM gets a lot of hate but lockfiles and local install by default is great. The default mode should not be global installation. Also imo virtual environments aren't amazing. Having some mode you have to remember to flip on that changes essentially the semantics of your pip commands seems a little brittle. Tools that work on top of pip and venv like Pipenv or Poetry seem a lot better.