One-off "experiments" become production technology all the time. They address an immediate need at the cost of tomorrow. This hasn't ever changed. Hyperbolic discounting is real.
When you're in a job that requires running experiments, analyzing results, and summarizing findings, all within an hour, shortcuts are required.
I think that analysts/scientists using python and Jupyter notebooks are doing IT a favor. If your job is to refactor/re-engineer python notebooks and corresponding workflows, you've either forgotten how much worse it could be with excel+vba or you fortunately arrived after trench warfare.
When you're in a job that requires running experiments, analyzing results, and summarizing findings, all within an hour, shortcuts are required.
I think that analysts/scientists using python and Jupyter notebooks are doing IT a favor. If your job is to refactor/re-engineer python notebooks and corresponding workflows, you've either forgotten how much worse it could be with excel+vba or you fortunately arrived after trench warfare.