this article summarizes the situation and explains a few things that were not clear to me from previous articles.

The windows support is interesting because Python dropped 32-bit x86 for Linux, yet kept it for Windows (and maybe ARM). That means at the end of the day unless they're doing stupid things, the code can't be assuming 64-bit, which meant once I modded the auto tooling to remove the lock-out it worked just fine. So what my thought is, is that I guess I understand both sides. It's not hard to just compile it yourself if you have the expected configuration, but it's also usually not much work to compile a package twice for a release flow once you have the pipeline setup.