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Radical indeed. But what about the use case of modules
compiled on one system and moved to a different system? Is
that use case important enough?

There used to be a different use case, because bytecode
files used to contain relative path names. I believe that's
been fixed, if only by code in site.py that absolutizes
sys.path. (Except the initial '' -- is that important?)