[Zelazny7]

Yeah, that's a valid point. And it took me a couple years to internalize these differences -- mostly by being burned on numerous occasions. Base R has a lot of idiosyncrasies and they have to be memorized, unfortunately.

I develop R packages for my colleagues and so I stick to Base R whenever possible. I don't want my packages depending on the tidyverse at all. But for EDA, I am agnostic about what my colleagues do. They should use the tools that stay out of the way and let them get their hands around the dataset intuitively. For me that's Base R, for others it's data.table or tidyverse.