There's also the assumptions around wheels having consistent metadata (which isn't required in older versions of the specs), so as long as you don't need to sup

There's also the assumptions around wheels having consistent metadata (which isn't required in older versions of the specs), so as long as you don't need to support the long tail of packages, then those assumptions are fine (it's worth noting uv weren't the first to make these assumptions, poetry did this too, but pip does not).