We have virtual envs and package isolation, it's usually bloated, and third party and doesn't make for a good robust OS base, it's more an app layer. See flatpak, snapcraft.
"Compares left pad with ml library backing the hottest AI companies of the cycle"
Bloated is an emotion, it's not a technical term. The related, most commonly known technical term is "DLL hell". And I absolutely love to work with flatpak, because not once in my job I thought about it, apart from looking what folder to backup.
Left pad was ten years ago. Today is 2025-01-13 and we are still discussing how good yet another python PM presumably is. Even a hottest ML library can only do so much in this situation.
"Compares left pad with ml library backing the hottest AI companies of the cycle"