The happy path (apt-get install, or even ./configure && make && make install) is about the same.
When things go sideways, I find troubleshooting pip a little trickier. Some of this might be the tooling, but there's a cultural part too: C++ libraries seem fairly self-contained, with fewer dependencies, whereas a lot of python code pulls in everything under the sun.
When things go sideways, I find troubleshooting pip a little trickier. Some of this might be the tooling, but there's a cultural part too: C++ libraries seem fairly self-contained, with fewer dependencies, whereas a lot of python code pulls in everything under the sun.