I don't disagree with you, but in my experience even having a requirements.txt file is a luxury when it comes to scientific Python code: A lot of the time I end up having to figure out dependencies based purely on whatever the script is importing
Or use `uv add --script`. Then dependencies gets recorded in the script itself, which is great for single-file scripts. But obviously, that won't help if the author can't be bothered to take those steps
