I've been a regular Python user for a decade and every Python app I've ever used has worked on stock Python. And vendor builds often ship with patches that make

I've been a regular Python user for a decade and every Python app I've ever used has worked on stock Python. And vendor builds often ship with patches that make it work better on the OS in question. But I can see how devs often want bleeding edge releases. From a stability, reliability, and CI/CD performance standpoint, I would discourage building your own Python. Things break more the more often your base version changes.