Just in case it needs to be said: I’m not proposing to go back to that[1], but forward (in a direction that’s more cohesive than the current state of affairs; however we’d end up shaping that).
I cut the quote short but I agree with that whole paragraph – I think corporate users (not just Big ones) are both underrepresented in these discussions, and also highly exposed to the many different ways that Python packaging works just within all the internal uses (it’s something I see all the time in my $dayjob). Though in contrast to BigCorp, not everyone has the means to set up their own distribution much less build backend, so the grumbling is very loud also in SMEs.
at least, people will have a lot of associations with that term ↩︎