This is why I still like to setup projects and environments with my own `make` `venv` and `pip`.

No it’s not. You do it because you didn’t see the point in changing what you do. Don’t pretend that this is your “I told you so” moment. The QOL improvement offered by uv over your approach is certainly substantial, but it’s also easy to get off of uv. Nobody here feels legitimately “trapped” in the uv “ecosystem”. For 99.999% of Python projects, if they need to get off of uv, it’s going to be a very quick thing to do.

The disappointment and anger is because we’ve had a nice QOL improvement which is now more directly threatened in a way that it was before, and it’s always hard to go backwards. A QOL improvement that you never had in the first place. So…congrats?

Unless your point is “this is why I deprive myself of nice things, because they can go away”…which is just silly.