Which leaves you with what, not installing packages or sharing packages between everything on my system and all apps I work on? The 80ies just called, they want their development methodologies back.
It strikes me that virtual environments are a fairly ugly hack to smooth over the fact that Python is not a stable language. It changes a lot, requiring the use of particular runtimes for particular Python code, requiring the installation of multiple runtimes.
That's a pretty serious downside to the language. Virtual environments are needed to help people deal with that downside.
