>...yet implicitly acknowledges the shitshow that is the python library/package/environment management)

(Disclosure, I am a Python programmer who has suffered through the trash packaging situation since forever)

Since when has R been in a position to cast shade on the reproducible environment of another language? Anytime I dip my toe into the R ecosystem, it feels anathema to development practices to find anyone using renv or equivalent to try and vendor dependencies. Enormous pain to try to try and get old R code running again.