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Package managers and libraries are orthogonal. if the language and the libraries are stable, you hardly need a package manager. And without one, I’d say you see much better quality in the wild.

I think the suggestion here is to take a copy of those that you know works with your software and package in that particular version?

instead of the user having to resolve conflicts or manage the dependencies

Those are properties of Python's package management strategy and language design, they're not inherent to package management.

Meanwhile Ryan Fleury is writing a cross platform debugger almost entirely from scratch in C.

Nobody said to not use libraries. Hell, even the Odin site's main page links to one.