Fair points; the reason for asking is that it seems counterintuitive from the outside perspective for you to maintain/extend the pip interface as well?

And of course that some colleagues of mine insist on using `uv pip` for anything and everything, which feels wrong…

Granted it’s a great feature which made the transition to uv smooth in the first place.

So far the maintenance burden has been quite bearable and extending pip provides us with an opportunity to explore and encourage improvements upstream which are still beneficial to a lot of people.