[JPKab]

There is most definitely an unwinnable war between simplicity/ease-of-use and more power/customizability.

That being said, Alteryx is an example of a company that has made a ton of money via a data munging tool that is a visual programming language. The users are fanatical as well.

[hermitcrab]

It is not really a war though is it? Some people prefer visual tools like Alteryx, Knime or Easy Data Transform. Other people prefer R or Python. And some people will alternate approaches, depending on the problem at hand. Also, many 'visual' tools include the option of text based programming, for flexibility.