Honestly, I do want to extend pip to cover additional parts of the workflow.
However, the reality is that the pip project does not have the development resources invested in it to do so. There’s a huge amount of work needed to maintain pip’s current functionality and deal with incoming user requests (bug, feature, discussion etc) that the volunteer maintainers and contributors are already not keeping up with it or barely keeping up with it (depending on how generous you want to be).
There isn’t really much developer availability to pay down existing technical and social debt, which is viewed as a pre-requisite to adding additional features by the maintainers – if we can’t keep up with existing feature maintainance, it gets worse when we add more features. IMO, this is a reasonably big piece of why pip isn’t really gaining massive new user-workflow features.