You could learn how to use Python. Just spend one of those 4 hours actually learning. Imagine just getting into a car and pressing controls until something happened. This wouldn't be allowed to happen in any other industry.
To avoid spending hours on fixing broken environments after a single "pip install", I would make it easy to rollback to a known state. For example, recreate virtualenv from a lock requirements file stored in git: `pipenv sync` (or corresponding command using your preferred tool).
Half of the problems I've helped some people solve stem from python devs insisting on shuffling std libraries around between minor versions.
Some libraries have a compatibility grid with different python minor versions, because how often they break things.