I'm not a huge fan of conda either but your comment is not very constructive without either providing concrete examples of what you mean, or explaining your 'complete insanity' claim. I don't personally see how helping newcomers easily maintain environments with versioned C libraries in them is vile or insane.

If you're just writing "a=b+c"-level Python scripts, or scrambling together tiny flask/django apps, or whatever else, you probably don't care indeed.

If you're doing/learning any kind of data-science-related stuff, that requires tons of C extensions and libraries. And many 'noobs' learn Python in order to use pandas/numpy/torch/whatever else is hot these days.