[japanuspus]

I have a hunch that in five years, the global-state package manager built into python will be a feature because we will all be working exclusively in dev-containers.

What does it matter to you if there are features in the standard library you don't use? The full python embedded distribution is only 8MB including runtime.

[the__alchemist]

I hope your hunch is wrong! I feel like containers are a symptom of situations like this Python one.