HAHAHAH don't even get me started on how bad anaconda is. On how slow the installer + interpreter, how they avoided being a part of the usual pip workflow, bloated environment, cross platform inconsistencies, extremely slow dependency resolution, etc etc etc...

Plus it took the name of an existing (fairly big) project

Posit has solved similar problems with their Package Manager as well, the benefit being that it's hosted on-prem, but the user has to build wheels for their desired architecture (if they're not on pypi).