Yes, often it's used for things where you "simply" have to install a dependency which does so much stuff its official website can't tell you what it is, then yo

Yes, often it's used for things where you "simply" have to install a dependency which does so much stuff its official website can't tell you what it is, then you have to figure out how to install precisely version 3.9.7 because another one won't work for this, and of course use that one workaround to initialize it the first time, and you're set unless one of the 10 git clones in some script fails. Many things could instead be as simple as "python main.py".