I found it quite interesting that your "what's the point" section only has one point in it: avoid conflicting dependencies. I found it interesting because I am

I found it quite interesting that your "what's the point" section only has one point in it: avoid conflicting dependencies. I found it interesting because I am generally in the distro-package camp vs venvs, and I do not see any other point myself. And for conflicting dependencies, I strive to solve that with barebone VMs to run individual "services" (or containers if security is not a concern).