You are kind of right. Install non standard stuff in python is sometimes pain. BUT you can do it absolutely right. Also most of the time only few packages make

You are kind of right. Install non standard stuff in python is sometimes pain. BUT you can do it absolutely right. Also most of the time only few packages make you trouble. So you just need sometimes a fix for them. That's it. You even can download it and make it completely offline. Instagram is running on python... so it is battle tested. By the way, I would always try to avoid anaconda in production.