The core of the problem is that the tidyverse is trying to turn R into a user-friendly real-time calculator, rather than a tool for stable, deterministic, and literate data analysis.
That’s a rather glib interpretation of what I said.
I’m being rather charitable when I call the tidyverse “user-friendly”. That might be the goal of tidyverse devs, but it hasn’t been the reality since inception.
The point is even if we assume it is or will eventually become user-friendly, are we willing to accept the trade-offs that come with that?
