uv pip is a brilliant adoption gateway, you get all of the speed gains for a 3 char change

Agreed, I'd prefer it stick around for the long-term because I use it when creating temporary venvs to screw around with things that I'm not certain about committing to in my actual projects for example. I guess I could do that with scripts but it's nicer/easier to use uv pip

Yeah, I don't think I'd have made the jump otherwise, since convincing others on the team would have been much harder.