Anything that makes it easier to make a script that I wrote run on a colleagues machine without having to give them a 45 minute crash course of the current state of python environment setup and package management is a huge win in my book.

Don’t use it in production, problem solved.

I find this feature amazing for one-off scripts. It’s removing a cognitive burden I was unconsciously ignoring.

It's not meant for production.

There's about 50 different versions of "production" for Python, and if this particular tool doesn't appear useful to it, you're probably using Python in a very very different way than those of us who find it useful. One of the great things about Python is that it can be used in such diverse ways by people with very very very different needs and use cases.

What does "production" look like in your environment, and why would this be terrible for it?