ML, pydata etc. are really worlds apart from more traditional Python ecosystems; guido himself a couple years back admitted he had no idea about those silos and sat down with some leaders of those communities to hear their needs. Those communities tend to have their own recommendations and best practices.

My very brief exposure to TF seems to suggest that dev environments surrounding TF are way harder to set up than my “list of bare packages in a requirements.txt file” scenario which is sufficient for a lot of more traditional endeavors.