Talking about xarray here.
"I want to to plot one 2D field."

"Easy, just do `data.isel(time = 0).plot()`. "

"Neat. How can I add coastlines. "

"Ah, for that you need to load matplotlib and cartopyp explicitly, create fig and axes with plt.subfigure, pass the projection in a strange dict() object to subplot_kw and then add coastlines to the axes. "

"Wat?"

Five days. Several people trying to troubleshoot this issue, it still doesn't work.

There's clearly something very wrong in some part of the configuration, but also.. WTF is this system in which you need to globally install a kernel in order to use it? You don't need to do that in vscode; you just point to the location of your environment and it uses it (although the fact that you NEED to do this is also shitty, but at least it works).