Yea I get that but I have experience people working with all sorts of insanely complicated heuristic to get something like a NER system running when they could

Yea I get that but I have experience people working with all sorts of insanely complicated heuristic to get something like a NER system running when they could have much more easily used a Hugging face model. But I totally agree that the article holds true if you have to train your own model.