Eh, maybe, but usually you'll have to write software to wrangle/manage the data. And even if you can go without software it would be a lot slower (like a few or

Eh, maybe, but usually you'll have to write software to wrangle/manage the data. And even if you can go without software it would be a lot slower (like a few orders of magnitude slower with a human in the loop). But your main point about the cost of data wrangling vs the cost of "actual data science" is correct.