This seems to be an aggregation of some posts on python-list. Basically, extra-random opinions. I'll offer mine: I won't say that Python packaging is generally

This seems to be an aggregation of some posts on python-list. Basically, extra-random opinions. I'll offer mine: I won't say that Python packaging is generally excellent, but it's gotten much better over the years. The pyproject.toml is a godsend, there's the venv module built-in to Python, pip will by default no longer install package outside of a venv. Dependency groups are being added, meaning that the requirements.txt files can also be specified in the project.toml. Documentation is pretty good, especially if you avoid blog posts from 5+ years ago.