[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.