Rye is never going to replace apt. There are too many system dependencies and people do not want to deal with multiple package managers in most cases. I suspect even within Python, there will never be one tool. Go is materially different, because it is the language and tooling wrapped into one. Python would have to have the solid tooling built into the CLI, so that we don't feel the need for tools like Rye to begin with. Python is already too fractured to ever realize this, imho.

We have been moving away from python packagers towards linux packagers because it is trivial to mirror them internally. We do this because external mirrors have been unreliable and we have full control over when updates get rolled out without having to pin every version (the mirror effectively pins them)