> There’s pip, virtualenv, pipx, uv, probably half a dozen others I’m missing...

> Reminds me of that competing standards xkcd.

Yes, for years I've sat on the sidelines avoiding the fragmented Poetry, ppyenv, pipenv, pipx, pip-tools/pip-compile, rye, etc, but uv does now finally seem to be the all-in-one solution that seems to be succeeding where other tools have failed.