Although I agree in general, direnv is pretty transparent. For example, you need to approve any change in .envrc and it's pretty verbose. It also solves another

Although I agree in general, direnv is pretty transparent. For example, you need to approve any change in .envrc and it's pretty verbose. It also solves another big issue for me - I no longer have to install globals like with "npm i -g"and I can use "pip install --user" without trading off convenience and using weird relative bin paths!