I feel you. (Un)fortunately for me CQ is important enough because OpenSCAD and similar are not CADs... they are just simple generators without an ability to ref

I feel you. (Un)fortunately for me CQ is important enough because OpenSCAD and similar are not CADs... they are just simple generators without an ability to reference, use already drawn things. Whereas CadQuery has the main feature which is missing from OpenSCAD directly in its name: "Query". I'm actively working on bringing CadQuery and all its dependencies to Nix because *Conda is an abomination of highest order. Moreover the pywrap and OCP which are CadQuery's dependencies are even much worse. They are like galleries of every DevOps anti-pattern ever invented. The more you dive into them the more horrible it gets. CQ is actually nice though.