I would say it's more an artifact of historical tech debt that is hard to change now without breaking everyone. As another commenter pointed out, you want to us

I would say it's more an artifact of historical tech debt that is hard to change now without breaking everyone. As another commenter pointed out, you want to use a venv - I use pipenv as a tool to automate this but there are others as well (poetry is probably better but pipenv seems to work for me).