Python is a much older and generalist language than R, so yes, while it would be great to impose this kind of order on things, it’s not practical for its current extent of use.
That being said, after two decades of using Python professionally, the only really problems I’ve ever encountered are “package doesn’t support this version for {reasons}” and “ML library is doing something undocumented and/or dumb that requires a specific Python version.” The former is normally because the package author is no longer maintaining their package and the latter is because, again, the ML community is among the absolute worst at creating solid tooling.
That being said, after two decades of using Python professionally, the only really problems I’ve ever encountered are “package doesn’t support this version for {reasons}” and “ML library is doing something undocumented and/or dumb that requires a specific Python version.” The former is normally because the package author is no longer maintaining their package and the latter is because, again, the ML community is among the absolute worst at creating solid tooling.