@saaketp @pradyunsg @steve.dower
It seems that removing the del importlib.metadata in the bokeh/__init__.py module might fix:
(Pdb) import importlib.metadata
(Pdb) importlib.metadata
<module 'importlib.metadata' from '/Users/bryan/anaconda/envs/bk301-py10/lib/python3.10/importlib/metadata/__init__.py'>
(Pdb)