[zahlman]

The rest of the thread makes it clear that you expect a "package manager" to do more things than Pip does.

Pip is focused on installing the packages, not really "managing" them. The problem is that there are quite a few different takes on what "management" should entail. That's where all the alternatives are coming from.

[frollogaston]

Whichever you call it, at the end of the day it's more common to encounter dep problems in Python than with NodeJS, Rust, etc.

But also, ignoring things pip isn't meant to do like version management and just focusing on installing, pip's default of installing to some unclear system location was always confusing, particularly when Py2 vs 3 was a thing.