Man, this is timely. Work in data science at a startup right now, and table 1 is an incredibly accurate portrayal of my day-to-day. I had just opened a ticket about running analyses on production data before reading this article.
[Gyroscope cofounder here] We've experienced similar things and that was the motivation for this post -- ticketing systems and startups seem contradictory. What other processes/stack does your company use?