It is. It's convoluted and idiosyncratic for no reason and all together a puzzled together mess. R is not (much) better than Excel. It's better in the same way

It is. It's convoluted and idiosyncratic for no reason and all together a puzzled together mess. R is not (much) better than Excel. It's better in the same way that getting stabbed in the eye with a hot poker twice is better than getting stabbed with it three times.