Well, to be fair, what was demonstrated here was that people didn't actually extract the data after multiple edits and tries, regardless of what tools they had

Well, to be fair, what was demonstrated here was that people didn't actually extract the data after multiple edits and tries, regardless of what tools they had at their disposal. I think the idea of an object pipeline is sound for precisely this reason, but I don't think it should be connected to any one language or platform.