Yeah at this point it appears to be a cultural issue. There’s been plenty of opportunity to anoint a proper package manager that doesn’t require virtual environ

Yeah at this point it appears to be a cultural issue. There’s been plenty of opportunity to anoint a proper package manager that doesn’t require virtual environments or install things globally by default, that uses lock files and resolves dependencies without too much fuss. If I’m not mistaken poetry and pipenv offer this. But there just isn’t the buy in. People in the Python world, including many in this thread, just seem to refuse this path and insist, proudly, that their workflow is just fine. It’s a kind of psychological curiosity that people would resist proper package management so fervently.