@gotofritz 100% with you. Not sure if I managed to verbalize it the way it was intended with regards to dependency tracking. Last time I checked (my view might be outdated here) #pip freeze only tracked first order depdencies (meaning, deps your project explictly depends on) as opposed to what #poetry or #pipenv are able to accomplish with their lockfiles, effectively tracking your entire dependency tree (though you can still do that using pip-tool.)