alt Hacker NewsMany of the complaints about Pandas here (and around the internet) are about the weird API. However, if you follow a few best practices, you never run into the issue folks are complaining about.
I wrote a nice article about chaining for Ponder. (Sadly, it looks like the Snowflake acquisition has removed that. My book, Effective Pandas 2, goes deep into my best practices.)
I don't quite agree, but if this was true, what would you tell a junior colleague in a code review? You can't use this function/argument/convention/etc you found in the official API documentation because...I don't like it? I think any team-maintained Pandas codebase will unavoidably drift into the inconsistent and bad. If you're always working alone, then it can of course be a bit better.