Probably not down-voted for that, many Python devs agree that pip is basically garbage, down-voted because there are very simple solutions to Python's distribut

Probably not down-voted for that, many Python devs agree that pip is basically garbage, down-voted because there are very simple solutions to Python's distribution problems that you refuse to acknowledge. Depending on your use case, there are various tools, but one easy set of tools that is good for anything from large production deployments down to an ML notebook environment is pyenv+poetry. Those two will, with very few commands, allow you to specify and install your environment for a project very easily and with similar ease as you might find when using nvm (similar tool to pyenv) and npm (similar tool to poetry) for a JS/TS/node/whatever project. You got down-voted for being willfully ignorant and proud of it, basically.