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I consider R to be one of the lower-level ML/DS languages, in that people that use R typically are fairly intentional about what they are doing.

I've been working in this space for a long time and recently started reading up on a particular ML technique which gained a lot of popularity over the past five years. What strikes me about 95% of the material available is how over-hyped and uninformative it is, to the point of just being wrong.