You're getting downvoted but I wanted to let you know that I emphatically agree with you, but we might be the only two. Whenever a discussion of this comes up,

You're getting downvoted but I wanted to let you know that I emphatically agree with you, but we might be the only two. Whenever a discussion of this comes up, it seems there are always some "just use xyz" patterns, and usually 3 or 4 xyz or some very new thing someone just released and it always seems contradicts python official documentation. For every python packing question, there are 33 answers. I guess the irony is that there is more than one way to do it. Use poetry, use prose, use pip, use venv, use vidtualenv, use conda, use --user, pipenv, pipfile, pipy,pipx,anaconda,miniconda. It really is terrible. Npm gets a lot of flack for having vulnerable packages but do you see how many python fanatics push pip freeze? It allows them to ignore security vulnerabilities. I'm scared of upgrading any dependencies in my python projects because any update is virtually guaranteed to break. I can upgrade npm all day long and rarely encounter an issue. The ecosystem is so radically different.