Maybe I'm misremembering, but, isn't the point of pip install --user to get things onto your import path when running the base Python interpreter, just like sud

Maybe I'm misremembering, but, isn't the point of pip install --user to get things onto your import path when running the base Python interpreter, just like sudo pip install would (except scoped to your user)? If so, wouldn't installing an incompatible newer version of some library (or worse, a broken version) break system commands that import that library, when that same user is running those commands?