I think this article is causing a kerfuffle because it's hitting two different audiences very differently. Honestly the article title should have been "Friends

I think this article is causing a kerfuffle because it's hitting two different audiences very differently. Honestly the article title should have been "Friends don't let friends use CSV for data pipelines". Because when I'm wrangling data from a human - a human who is stubbornly defending their own little island of business information like their employment depended on it[1] - a CSV is about as good as I am gonna get. I had a bear of a time just convincing people to put their data in a delimited format, instead of a table inside a powerpoint presentation, or buried in sixty levels of Access joins, or in an SVG. I need data from "what is scroll wheel" sort of users. If I am working system to system? That's a different requirement, a requirement that is apparently where the OP author is coming from. [1] Because it kind of does. Having a unique platform is one of those priceless keys to being skipped in the thrice-yearly layoff rituals. Unfortunately, that means anyone approaching saying words like "integration" or "API" are shot on sight.