I wish there is some package manager in middle of conda and pip. Conda is too strict and often get stuck in SAT solving. pip doesn't even ask when reinstalling a version currently being used.

Edit: Typo: reinstalling a version of package currently being used

We ran into many unsolvable or 30m+ solvable envs with conda that mamba handled quickly.

The underlying solver can be used with conda directly as well, but I have not done that (https://www.anaconda.com/blog/a-faster-conda-for-a-growing-c...)