[kalefranz]

> if not plain incorrect

The justification was that the Anaconda installer is too heavy. The kitchen sink Anaconda installer is not designed for the author's use case. Miniconda is the provided way to bootstrap conda onto a system.

[superbatfish]

Indeed, Anaconda is too heavy. But he is aware of Miniconda and even mentions it in his last bullet point. He then dismisses it in short order, with a vague complaint about mysterious "best practices".

If he really believes that his tool is somehow better, fine. But since Miniconda is the de facto standard tool among data scientists for this use-case, the burden is on him to spend more words on exactly why it doesn't work for him.