Ha, if only! I've been the one to introduce this at the last three jobs I've had, two of which had hundreds of engineers and plenty of python code before I got

Ha, if only! I've been the one to introduce this at the last three jobs I've had, two of which had hundreds of engineers and plenty of python code before I got there. "Best practices" are incredibly unevenly distributed, and I suspect this is only more true for data/ML-heavy python code.