I pretty much only do scientific computing with Python so take this with a grain of salt, but ever since I have started using conda I have never looked back. Especially for cross platform projects conda makes things much easier. I would love for the official Python packaging tools to be in a better state so I hope this helps.

So use https://github.com/mamba-org/mamba , which is an alternative client to conda and a million times faster. (If you are creating environments more than once per month or so).