The problem is that poetry/conda/etc chose to make their own thing to begin with, when they should've just improved the standard language tool with the features

The problem is that poetry/conda/etc chose to make their own thing to begin with, when they should've just improved the standard language tool with the features they wanted. That's one key difference between shit languages (such as R) and languages that have good tooling (e.g. Rust) - the community works on the core together more rather than each person doing their own thing and confusing everyone in the community by not having a standard way to do anything. Every package management developer for python should have just added features to the standard package manager instead of doing their own thing.