I agree overall. In my particular case, my employer won't let me have Python for fear I will do things with it. But it is perfectly ok for me to RStudio with 2

I agree overall. In my particular case, my employer won't let me have Python for fear I will do things with it. But it is perfectly ok for me to RStudio with 2 million useful extensions that will do similar things. For better or worse, sometimes the tools we use are the tools we are left with. And I am saying this as a recent RStudio convert. I love how easy it makes some otherwise hard things. I hate the sheer amount of hoops you have to jump through to make some stuff work. But it works and I am definitely not an engineer.