Comment by abuckenheimer

If you look at the design documents for pandas 2 there is a good illustration of how a lot of pain points in pandas 1 spring from numpy ( https://pandas-dev.github.io/pandas2/internal-architecture.h...). I think any significant development effort numpy would probably greatly benefit both libraries.

Will have to check out dplyr :) love to see how they master the magic that is multi-indexes.