My speculation is that the average developer today never learned systems-adminstration skills and is not able to modify paths and/or hunt down and remove packag

My speculation is that the average developer today never learned systems-adminstration skills and is not able to modify paths and/or hunt down and remove packages causing conflicts. That said, installing non-distro provided packages with sudo never made any sense. But yes, having to pass –-break-system-packages to install to your user area in ~/.local is moronic. I only use venvs for big work projects and have never had a single unsolvable conflict in twenty years. And zero of any sort in the last five+.