[natureboy21]

Overall pretty great points. I have been inside a Fortune 100 company that had a totally backward Data Science team that was running to crazy levels of complexity with no known goal in sight.

One thing that is worth pointing out is that the deficiency in identifying goals before running after impressive technological complexity as a status symbol is not restricted to just Data Science. I see it all the time with technologies like "Bluetooth". Let's put Bluetooth in everything. We don't know why but it seems impressive so let's just do it.