While I do agree that this particular case may have some issues I still think that having a good starting point for people newly introduced to the ecosystem is

While I do agree that this particular case may have some issues I still think that having a good starting point for people newly introduced to the ecosystem is invaluable. Cookiecutter's pypackage repo [0] isn't necessarily standard either but it does provide a lot of helpful boilerplate and 'best-practices' that are hard to integrate after the fact. [0] https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage