Usually distros are one or two versions behind what many developers consider to be minimum viable version. For python especially, but also compilers if you want

Usually distros are one or two versions behind what many developers consider to be minimum viable version. For python especially, but also compilers if you want bleeding edge c++20 support. So then you need to either compile from src, or sideload install it and pray that cmake finds your new version instead of preferring the distro installed version.