This is actually a good callout. While pipeline speedups of transforms is hugely important, lots of other fundamental python tools for viz, model examination,

This is actually a good callout. While pipeline speedups of transforms is hugely important, lots of other fundamental python tools for viz, model examination, etc are not built on a different foundation and not optimized by pandas improvements. I get it: some of these are legacy, others are hand optimized python since default pandas is so slow. But I'm hoping that, over time, we'll improve the runtime of the other stages of analysis too.