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Another lucky winner: https://peps.python.org/pep-0668/

This PEP is meant to ensure you don't clobber your Linux distro's base environment and break key OS applications.

Also, this problem doesn't exist on e.g. Windows, where there is no OS installed python to clobber. Other folks have taught themselves to always use virtual environments for this very reason and therefore don't share your problem.

Hence, there are tutorials out there that don't talk about your problem and tools exist where the default behavior might be dangerous on your Linux distro.