Confusing is underselling it. That implies that Python dependency management is working fine, it's just complex. But it's not working fine: there's no such thing as lock files, which makes reproducible installs a gamble and not a given. For small scripts this is probably "okay", but if you're working in a team or want to deploy something on a server, then it's absolutely not fine because you want deterministic builds and that's simply impossible without a decent package manager.

Tools like uv solve the "it works on my machine" problem. And it's also incredibly fast.