[PaulHoule]

   pip —user

is suicide. You can be doing everything right, using venv’s, conda and all that, install one package in a user directory and blam! You just broke every Python you use because that package is installed in all your environments.

It’s a bad idea right up there with Linux distros having python2, python3, python3.1, puthon3.2, python3.3, …. They give up the ease of use of a command line application where you can tell people what to type for the mind numbing complexity of a GUI application where it takes a 1500 page book to explain how to do anything in Microsoft Word because now you can’t tell people what to type to run and install things.