>Fedora’s specfiles are far from simple too This is arguable. For example for the same project: https://copr-dist-git.fedorainfracloud.org/cgit/watchdog/todom

>Fedora’s specfiles are far from simple too This is arguable. For example for the same project: https://copr-dist-git.fedorainfracloud.org/cgit/watchdog/todoman/todoman.git/tree/todoman.spec https://copr-dist-git.fedorainfracloud.org/cgit/watchdog/tod... If know what `%py_build`, `%py3_install`, etc are and do then is much simpler to write, read, and manage. There's a standardized way that all python packages can be made rather copy-pasting instructions around. Of course there's the hidden complexity those commands bring on what they're doing behind the scenes.