Apologies if posting on the discourse somehow made this problem more frustrating for you. I suspect it had only a minor effect and most of the interest came via Twitter or Github or Hackernews.
Personally, I don’t think you’re further dividing the community. You are scratching an itch, which many in the community also have. If nobody else had this problem, there wouldn’t be so many similar projects and so many conversations and debates.
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I’m optimistic that things are moving in the right direction. The growing list of similar tools and the shrinking list of gaps gives encouragement that eventually standards and a single tool will emerge as the default.
If a lockfile standard arrives and a dev dependencies setup arrives, then many of the tools become standards compliant and the community just needs to pick one. Pybi and standalone python builds would be a cherry on top in my opinion.