What always surprises me is how many people make beautiful, lovingly-crafted band-aids to the language's warts and problems. Not just code + packages but social

What always surprises me is how many people make beautiful, lovingly-crafted band-aids to the language's warts and problems. Not just code + packages but social band-aids too. In a way, you could argue that the entire tidyverse is a huge effort of a band-aid. So for all the irritating design choices and idiosyncracies, R is still a network of islands that work incredibly well for people, as long as they don't ever go to sea.