I get how it might not be as useful in a production deployment where the system/container will be setup just for that Python service, but for less structured use-cases, `uv` is a silver bullet.
That's why I'm not personally too nervous about the strategic risk to the Python community of having such a significant piece of the ecosystem from a relatively young VC-backed company.
I’ve seems like a great tool, but I remember thinking the same about piping, too.
uv seems like a great tool, but I remember thinking the same about pipenv, too.
#2, if you don't like uv, you can switch to something else.
uv probably has the least moat around it of anything. Truly a meritocracy: people use it because it's good, not because they're stuck with it.
Python is doing great, other than still doing baby steps into having a JIT in CPython.