Then use pip compile.

Sure. Or poetry, or pipenv, or whatever third party packaging system you enjoy.

The whole point of GP is that python lacks a native sane packaging system, which I agree.

Python has several. It’s overall a good thing. It’s the reason you can package both one-file scripts and huge C++ / Fortran packages, which is the reason it has become a huge language in HPC / ML / AI / astronomy / data science / …

I agree that it makes life more confusing for newbies, though.