It's a nightmare of interop. Yes, it works for one person on a single laptop, but my experiences with conda outside of the happy path are universally terrible.
I'll stick with the standards.
Last time I could only solve it by deinstalling everything and reinstalling an updated version. Took ages to get all packages running again. Luckily my code still works but now I get depreciation warnings (and not in my code). Who knows what will happen next time. It only took like a day I needed for actually working with the data as well... urgh.