It depends a lot on the field. In my own work (I'm out of academia now, but it still applies), there's often very complex network setups involved, so a Jupyter

It depends a lot on the field. In my own work (I'm out of academia now, but it still applies), there's often very complex network setups involved, so a Jupyter notebook won't quite cut it. Many things in this particular domain can be nowadays solved with SDN, but it is still a complicated issue. I'm sure people from other fields have analogous problems, too. And this is in CS, I suspect that anything which implies more "physical" setup is orders of magnitude more complex.