I totally understand this feeling, but (at least from my perspective) there is definitely an expectation and an understanding that the proposal may have to change, and perhaps significantly (if it’s ever accepted). The initial wheel variant proposals were discussed on Discourse (and then at the Packaging Summit at PyCon, though I understand that that’s also not-Discourse), and what’s happened since then is we effectively took those ideas and pulled them into a working, experimental design. We learned a lot by building that prototype that we may not have learned through discussion alone (we ran into unforeseen problems, e.g., around lockfiles; the design changed a lot; etc.). I think the design is much stronger for it, and there’s now proof that it can work for real, complex packages (like PyTorch). But this isn’t meant to be the “conclusion” of the design process, just a continuation.
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