> It does, but primarily because most of the tools - and that includes pipenv, Poetry, pdm and hatch - have crammed up to three separate functionalities into on

> It does, but primarily because most of the tools - and that includes pipenv, Poetry, pdm and hatch - have crammed up to three separate functionalities into one (probably following the example of npm): packaging on one hand, dependency management on the other, and virtual environments on the third. Many build tools in other languages also do all of these three things - for example Ruby's Bundler or maven/gradle for JVM languages. And they're pretty reliable at all of these tasks. (I guess, "virtual environments" is maybe not the right description. What these tools all do is isolating dependencies of different projects from each other, although they might do it in slightly different ways.)