This is the weirdest excuse for Python's terrible tooling that I've ever heard.

"It's deliberately shit so that people won't use it unless they really have to."

i just realised that my comment sounds like it's praising python's package management since it's often so inconvenient to use, i want to mention that that wasn't my intended point, python's package management contains the worst aspects from both words: being centralised AND horrible to use lol

my mistake :)