[flats]

I feel you on a lot of this! But out of the box Python support? Does anybody actually want that? It’s pretty darn quick & straightforward to get a Python environment up & running on MacOS. Maybe I’m misunderstanding what you mean here.

[p_ing]

No one would want OOTB Python support. You'd be stuck on a version you didn't want to use.

[hedora]

I want it. That way, like code I write in any other language, it’ll run reliably on other people’s machines a few years from now.

I avoid writing python, so I’m usually the “other people” in that sentence.

[fauigerzigerk]

>it’ll run reliably on other people’s machines a few years from now

That's optimistic. What if the system Python gets upgraded? For some reason, Python libraries tend to be super picky about the Python versions they support (not just Python 2 vs 3).