I HATE PYTHON

You think bash is a terrible, broken package? :)

I guess part of the problem here is that Python package managers install packages' dependencies too. So, yes, I agree that if `wget ftp.gnu.org/zardoz.tgz && tar xf zardoz.tgz && cd zardoz && ./configure && sudo make install` causes a /usr/local/bin/bash to exist, that is terrible, broken, and fully unacceptable. But `sudo pip install zardoz` may well pull in a newer version of a dependency (probably not bash, of course, but there are plenty of CLI tools written in Python, and occasional needs for CLI dependencies not written in Python).

Another way of looking at this is, _if_ there is a need for a newer version of some common dependency, something like automake will make you figure that out on your own, at which point you as a sysadmin will ponder what's going on before you install a newer version of bash to /usr/local/bin. The Python ecosystem prefers not to make you figure that out on your own. There are good arguments for both philosophies, but this is a fundamental part of why there are orders of magnitude more people who install Python packages than have ever typed the letters "./configure".