> You can swap out uv for any other project management tool or build frontend and change nothing needs to change about the development environment.

> This is the entire purpose of the standards.

That seems to amount to saying that the purpose of the standards is to prevent progress and ensure that the mistakes of early Python project management tools are preserved forever. (Which would explain some things about the last ~25 years of Python project management I guess). The parts of uv that follow standards aren't the parts that people are excited about.