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"Due to a limitation in pip, if you are upgrading from Ansible 3 (or earlier), you need to uninstall Ansible and Ansible Base before installing Ansible 4"

Was it really a limitation in Pip? Or did the Ansible devs just really want this non-backwards-compatible release to use the same name as before, just so they wouldn't have to use a new package name like "ansible4"? Even though that would allow both pre-ansible4 and ansible4 scripts to co-exist? And considering everybody has to test and update their code for ansible 4 anyway?? This seems to just cause more pain for devs and admins with no real benefit. Which is to say, par for the course.

This is the main reason I have always hated using Ansible. Arbitrary decisions leading to a cumbersome, bloated, undocumented, difficult mess.