Yeah, I agree: it's super straightforward. It's hard for me to understand how people could find it inscrutable / confusing. Pandas is a LIFESAVER for anyone who needs to manipulate datasets programmatically.
Big fan of pandas as well... but I have to admit there are some things at the beginning were like wtf... some of which are now deprecated thankfully. But more on topic to this post I really can’t see why someone would want to solve speed on small datasets by incorporating numpy into a new form of pandas... both projects are so established, why would you attach your project to some other dev who know has to keep pace with numpy and pandas improvements when you could just import pandas, import numpy and be done with it?