Seems like every 6-12 months, one of my colleagues says "Spyder won't load, and in trying to fix it I borked my environment, please help." I'm wondering why we implicitly recommend spyder by including it in our environment.yml file. Spyder also imposes version constraints (e.g., currently it requires PyQt5<5.13), which has the potential to cause conflicts / inconsistent environments if (for example) pyvista and spyder impose incompatible dependency constraints.

Shouldn't we leave it up to the end user to pick their IDE? If not, can we be a bit more intentional about our recommendations?