Can the python packaging story get much worse? It's a huge blemish and way too much fragmentation and after market solutions, and of course the mental overhead

Can the python packaging story get much worse? It's a huge blemish and way too much fragmentation and after market solutions, and of course the mental overhead of virtualenvs or else you clobber your environment. One thing I keep hoping will get advanced in is PEP-582 to incorporate a local __pymodules__ folder since it would be nice if getting a python project up and running was as easy as node or php.