[hvnsweeting]

This is true but not completely. You will only get pip when you install the binary downloaded from python.org. On osx, people use brew, on Debian, they use apt. It is most likely only Windows people will download those binaries but actually they use Anaconda, WinPython instead

[ubernostrum]

It's still very easy to install. And as of Python 3.4 it's even easier since you can 'python -m ensurepip'.

[nailer]

Why are the packages removing pip?

[ubernostrum]

Anaconda provides its own separate package-management world, so it makes sense that it doesn't include pip. But you can always still install it.

[bb88]

I'm actually getting tired of package managers reinventing the wheel (literally) every time they want to install something.

In production when I deploy a django app, now I might have two libraries in different places in my system. One from the OS, and one from the pip dependency.