Given how much the author talks about professional standards, one would think they would write professionally.

Also, is the author aware of why people use Anaconda? Conda environments can make it significantly easier to link CUDA or Fortran libraries properly, which are quite prevalent in scientific computing. Many people who use such code bases are professional scientists and not professional programmers, so I understand seeing that generally conda-based packages are poorly architected.

It's almost like other people sometimes do things differently because they have different needs or have thought of things you haven't, not just because they're too stupid or uneducated to know better.