I’ve done quite a bit in of c# RhinoCommon programming in Rhino and a bit of IronPython in the past. I write a ton of CPython code outside of Rhino. I finally started to explore the CPython integration a bit more the other day and have a suggestion for McNeel to condsider as a replacement for Pip.
The folks at Astral have been developing a tool named uv ( GitHub - astral-sh/uv: An extremely fast Python package installer and resolver, written in Rust. ) that does the jobs of pip, pip compile, and managing virtual environments. It is blindingly fast and could provide for a quicker more seamless experience for CPython scripting in Rhino. It can also manage Python installations.
Just a suggestion. I’ve been using uv for a few months now to manage a bevy of my own projects and it’s been amazing.