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Conda used to be a life saver when years and years ago, compiled extensions were hard to install because you had to compile them yourself.

Nowadays, thanks to wheels being numerous and robust, the appeal of anaconda is disappearing for most users except for some exotic mixes.

conda itself now causes more trouble than it solves as it's slow, and lives in its own incompatible world.

But anaconda solves a different problem now that nobody else solves, and that's managing Python for big corporation. This is worth a lot of money to big structures that need to control packages origin, permissions, updates, and so on, at scale.

So it thrives there.