pdm is almost a drop-in replacement for Poetry, while being much faster on solving dependencies; look for "A Review: Pipenv vs. Poetry vs. PDM" if interested, or try it on your project.
That, really, demonstrates the cultural problem Python packaging has. With Rust, if you have a packaging improvement you make a Cargo plugin or you write an RFC & get your changes added to Cargo itself. So the Rust package manager is Cargo, and you don't have an endless string of alternatives to pick among. Just keep using Cargo, and it keeps getting better.
