I'm of the same mind, and have been surprised for a long time that this isn't commonly said. dplyr/tidyverse also suits my thinking process around working with

I'm of the same mind, and have been surprised for a long time that this isn't commonly said. dplyr/tidyverse also suits my thinking process around working with data much better than pandas, which is by far the worst of the lot. h2o.ai has been working on data.table for python (https://github.com/h2oai/datatable https://github.com/h2oai/datatable). Hope it matures quickly