If your work is more focused on statistics or pure modeling, then I agree R wins hands down. The issue is that most projects have "unclean" parts where you have

If your work is more focused on statistics or pure modeling, then I agree R wins hands down. The issue is that most projects have "unclean" parts where you have to gather data from multiple sources, use connectors for services, S3 buckets and whatnot; dealing with that mess is where Python really shines. AI probably changes the equation to some extent, but I still believe I'd rather maintain a complicated data pipeline like that in Python rather than R.