It's not hard at all, just a pip install away. Perhaps a rare uninstall later.
It sounds like you haven't read the full thread. It's common for younger developers to be slaves to "best practice" even in exceptions where it doesn't apply.
Appeal to authority is not a compelling argument either.
Promising but very barebones. Hard to do without syntax highlighting these days, for example. But I think it would be useful on a tiny machine with openwrt, as micro is huge there. ;-)
Before I used micro & ne I used nano, and configured the keybindings to work in the CUA style. I still have the dot files, didn't delete them, but they rarely get used anymore.
I think they recently added Ctrl+S to save by default, even if unconfigured, woohoo.
I suggest a systems administration course if you're having so much trouble with Python libs. It can help, knowing your way around the filesystem and how to use PATHs, etc.
I only ever had it a problem with large, poorly maintained projects from work. You know the kind that have two web frameworks required in the same project, and two orms, etc. ;-) That one I definitely put into a venv. But my stuff, no.
The documents were obtaied thru a news/search service built by him as IT. The explanation is documented, plausible, likely, and verifiable to some degree.
Contrast that with your message from a vested interest that it's "a lie." You'll need a lot more than that to be convincing.
Why not critique the content instead?