The downside of such an approach is that it hides the inevitable complexity of dependency management. Things like version constraints, licensing and platform sp

The downside of such an approach is that it hides the inevitable complexity of dependency management. Things like version constraints, licensing and platform specifica are important. If developers don't see them, they won't learn about them. For instance I encountered a python wheel lately that "conveniently" shipped a precompiled .so file. Not only was that a security problem but also did that file not work properly under Ubuntu 18.04.