Pandas gets the job done, and is overall easy to use and intuitive. The problem is that it's a huge pile of hacks, exceptions, anti patterns, and regressions.

Pandas gets the job done, and is overall easy to use and intuitive. The problem is that it's a huge pile of hacks, exceptions, anti patterns, and regressions. The API is inconsistent, loose, full of obscure options added as quickfixes.