I think complaining about Python's tooling has become like complaining about the weather in some cold and rainy country. Good for chit-chat and noding in resigned consensus.

In the meantime I cant recall any instance in the last five years (at least) where a project would fail to get going based on a simple venv and pip setup.

An exception is CUDA but I think we can agree this is not what you need to setup every day.

I wonder if that benign view due to Linux and people experiencing something very different in other OS's.