[3amOpsGuy]

>> I'm surprised to be honest but maybe I'm missing something.

Give it a proper whirl, you'll never go back.

Proper python REPL history across sessions (not hacking up a substitute using a $PYTHONSTARTUP file to load readline history and register an at exit handler to dump history). History becomes as useful as a large shell history (i'm sure i did something similar last year, what was it?...)

In line charting, makes visualising any random thing (runtime of function, memory usage etc.) so easy you'll start doing it all the time.

The webserver notebook can stream line collaboration with co-workers. I like the ability to make "interactive documentation", although truth be told i haven't used this as much as i could yet.