Strong agree. I'll willingly install a handful dependencies from my distro package manager, where the dependencies are battle-hardened Unixy tools and I can clearly see what they do and how they do it.

I'm not going to install thousands of dodgy-looking packages from pip, the only documentation for which is a Discord channel full of children exchanging 'dank memes'.

I like Python, but I simply do not trust the pip ecosystem at this point (same for npm, etc.).