If you don’t include homebrew, as a package manager for MacOS, then you aren’t having a serious conversation. This whole line of conversation is about whether

If you don’t include homebrew, as a package manager for MacOS, then you aren’t having a serious conversation. This whole line of conversation is about whether it’s necessary to manually install python. If you claim it is you are lying, because it can easily be installed via homebrew, and you are clearly aware of that. If you have some need to claim that homebrew isn’t a MacOS package manager or that MacOS doesn’t “have” homebrew, because Apple doesn’t ship it. Go right ahead, but it’s a red herring.