It seems like that'd work as long as you restrict yourself entirely to the pip interface. Stray outside of that, and you start accumulating a real dependency on uv itself.

It's trivial to switch from uv to other projects like pdm or poetry. uv follows the standard PEPs really closely, so most things are interoperable.

If uv disappeared tomorrow, five projects would spring up to make compatible implementations of its functionality.

Because after a few years of using a non-awful tool you lose your tolerance for awfulness?