The problem with doing things this way is that you’re not going to know there’s a problem until there’s an issue in your tests (hopefully) or production. You’ll

The problem with doing things this way is that you’re not going to know there’s a problem until there’s an issue in your tests (hopefully) or production. You’ll eventually install something new, it’ll update some subdependencies to a version that another library doesn’t support, and then things get broken. Pip-tools is easy to use and it tells you there’s a problem before it’s too late.