Interesting food for thought. The later point about the tension between business and users lately is also a good one and should be kept in mind. That's an ethical concern you find most in companies publishing Free Software though. It's not the full packaged solution but a good starting point.

Definitely a weird one... still a mystery and unfortunately will probably stay this way. Having the code source could have helped nail it down, could have been interesting.

Good things to keep in mind if you're pondering between pandas or polars for your data processing.

There was definitely something we lost from the early days of the web. It was not perfect, far from it, but some of that spark is missing.