I HATE PYTHON

A large factor in this dilemma is many prominent distributions ship, and rely on, tooling written in Python (including package managers). Installing a different version of a package that was already installed by the distribution can break those tools, and results are not hilarious.

I believe some distributions have considered having a totally separate Python installation to be used by the distribution's tools, which brings its own complications (such as users using their package manager to determine that 'requests' is installed, but complaining that 'import requests' fails in their own programs).

It is an unfortunate situation, but had led to some people (including me) never using the distro-provided Python for anything other than temporary or one-off scripts.