Maybe I am biased, because I learned these things so long ago and I don't realize that it's a pain to learn. But what exactly is so confusing about virtualenvs ?

They really not that different from any other packaging system like JS or Rust. The only difference is instead of relying on your current directory to find the the libraries / binaries (and thus requiring you to wrap binaries call with some wrapper to search in a specific path), they rely on you sourcing an `activate` script. That's really just it.

Create a Virtualenv:

    $ virtualenv myenv

Activate it, now it is added to your $PATH:

    $ . myenv/bin/activate

There really is nothing more in the normal case.

If you don't want to have to remember it, create a global Virtualenv somewhere, source it's activate in your .bashrc, and forget it ever existed.