It was not elitism my constructive point but this: "Unpopular as it may be, the latest tools come pretty good as black boxes, so that creativity is shifted from

It was not elitism my constructive point but this: "Unpopular as it may be, the latest tools come pretty good as black boxes, so that creativity is shifted from maths to application domains." There are several tech fields and all the human sciences that are directly benefitting from an 80/20 data science approach and these are the new domains being added, they also have higher ceiling if you want.