And how many people (count them with fingers) use Conda for anything other than Python? It’s a bloatware. People stopped using Conda because these people kept making the bloat worse.
If you don't need it that's fine, no one is stopping you from using PyPI and uv instead. But for some that is not a replacement.
And yes, some things about conda(-forge) could be described as bloated. I particularly dislike the convoluted packaging process.
It is always tradeoffs and deciding based on your own use cases. E.g. if you want to distribute tested packages to users of your software then both conda-forge and PyPI are ill-suited for you. They (and most other package managers) do install-time dependency resolution, so the installation cannot be guaranteed to be tested as working at all. Some package managers do that better, so is conda-forge and PyPI obsolete now?
Or did I misunderstand you and what you meant with "conda" was either anaconda, or conda-the-software? But then the comment about Python doesn't make much sense.
You seem to be conflating Anaconda with the conda ecosystem. This package is from conda-forge, which is a community project sponsored by Anaconda but otherwise unrelated to it.
I couldn't care less for Anaconda, but with conda-forge and pixi there is a decent general purpose and language-agnostic package management tool for development purposes in the conda ecosystem.