> You could argue that uv has a better default behavior than pip, but that's not an engineering advantage: it's just a different choice of default setting. If you turned off eager bytecode compilation in pip you'd get the same result.

Until pip does make the change, this is an engineering advantage for uv. Engineers working on code are part of the product. If I build a car with square wheels and don't change them when I notice the issue, my car still has a bumpy ride, that's a fact.