@pganssle I guess you must be tired of this, but let me share my personal frustration with you:
ca. 2020 I inherited (another) project and wanted to convert it to something resembling current state of affairs, modern setuptools, tox, etc. We used pyscaffold 3.x to help us with that and we ended up with a sane minimal-setup.py, almost-everything-in-setup.cfg setup with setuptools_scm. This all worked fine until had to introduce cryptography and this all was in vain since RHEL 8 pip is old /cont