Ah well that's not as bad I guess, I saw in their readme they're recommending people use 3.10, which when I see it is often a bit of a red flag that the project in question may not be well maintained, but I agree I do see quite a few ML repos still noting the use of 3.10 to this day.

Yikes those a both very old. Python pre 3.12 had some serious performance issues. You should be aiming to run the current stable version which will contain any number of stability and interoperability fixes. The bundled OS python versions are often far behind and better suited to running the basic tools rather than being used for every application or script that you run where ideally you'd use a python version manager and isolated virtual environment.