>FWIW, as a pip maintainer, I don't strongly agree with this statement, I think if pip had the same full time employee resources that uv has enjoyed over the last year that a lot of these issues could be solved.

No. This something people tell each other, that it's a lack of resources, but in reality almost all OSS projects with long standing flaws don't have a resources problem. They have a prioritization problem, where they actively ignore and refuse to work on things that affect users every single day of usage.

There are features in FreeCAD that are straight up just broken that you hit every single day of using FreeCAD. When a simple low cost fix is suggested you get immense pushback, because of how "impure" the fix is despite being entirely cosmetic, also being reversible and having no long term impact on maintenance.

Progress happens when you sidestep those who block progress. That's what realthunder was doing and that's what Astral is doing with uv. No more bullshit excuses.