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To me it seems both Pandas and Polars sacrifice API for performance, just using different approaches to achieve that performance and thus differently bad API. There's obviously some amount of tradeoff there and no shame in tilting in scale in one direction, though it would be refreshing to be upfront and honest to users about that.

Additionally, Pandas seems an organically grown API. These days with more experience and more data frame implementations to learn from, it should be possible to do better, something I only partially see when looking at Polars.