Agreed, but that Sword of Damocles cuts both ways. The thing you do with your data which starts out useful at first can and will easily erode into infrastructur

Agreed, but that Sword of Damocles cuts both ways. The thing you do with your data which starts out useful at first can and will easily erode into infrastructural debt if not built on sound foundations, which cannot be found off the shelf in standard scientific computing libraries that have been around for decades.