I do data analysis of ATLAS data, and it's everywhere. Everyone knows that root kind of sucks, and some people have moved to matplotlib do to at least the plott

I do data analysis of ATLAS data, and it's everywhere. Everyone knows that root kind of sucks, and some people have moved to matplotlib do to at least the plotting for them, however that brings a slide of other problems for you, for example the plot guidelines for ATLAS publications is formulated in root terms, so other kinds of plots sometimes not get approved. On the other hand there is literally millions of lines of code in the analysis framework that heavily based on root, so there is no real way to switch it out.