[coldtea]

>I always see people complaining about Python packaging, but rarely run into issues myself. Maybe it's an OS issue? I use Linux.

No, it's a "what you do with it issue". Not necessarily about the mere "number of dependencies" used, when e.g. someone just makes some conda env and is fine with it.

Things like relocating, provisioning, reproducibility, version updating, cross platform, etc, all have their issues, and it gets worse when you need to build your own packages.