Yes, you can see the divide in the popularity of interactive notebooks like jupyter and observable. To programmers who use a standard git-based workflow, the in

Yes, you can see the divide in the popularity of interactive notebooks like jupyter and observable. To programmers who use a standard git-based workflow, the interactive notebooks are anathema because you can't use version control to compare code state and monitor progress, and because of the global variables. But to many quantitative researchers for whom software version control isn't a large part of their professional worldview, it seems normal to just keep adding to the same document until you hit a state that seems to work, without much emphasis on checkpointing and navigation between checkpoints, and testing at each checkpoint.