[0] https://pip-tools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
As for Poetry, it is constantly improving and has gotten very popular. It should not be dismissed, especially for larger projects since its dependency management is so much better than pipenv. This is a good primer: https://diegoquintanav.github.io/poetry-primer.html
I think it’s fair to see appeal in poetry, but ultimately the maintainers have created a culture that feels a bit too non-collaborative to outside ideas or use cases beyond what they more narrowly envisage. That said, my perspective may just be tainted by multiple poor experiences interacting with the maintainers.
then you'd also need rbenv, nvm, etc.
and pyenv can implode in marvelous ways.
pyenv isn’t perfect, and isn’t what I’d use for prod images, but for dev setup it’s relatively bulletproof and less issue-prone than any alternative I’ve seen.