Python was created in the 90s when most unix users were on huge minicomputer-like shared systems (mostly at universities). In those days you had entire IT staf

Python was created in the 90s when most unix users were on huge minicomputer-like shared systems (mostly at universities). In those days you had entire IT staff dedicated to curating and maintaining all of the software on the system, making sure it ran well, keeping it updated, etc. Guido explicitly did not want to bog the language development down with time spent on building packaging, deployment, etc.--those were matters for the system admins. We've all kind of been dealing with the consequences of that decision for many years.