I completely agree with the cons you outlined, especially your point about "productivity drops when data scientists leave notebooks."
A few years ago, I started working as a data scientist at a big financial firm and reviewed all workflow orchestrator available tools (including Kedro). I didn't like that all of them forced me to re-write my Jupyter code into their frameworks (they're supposed to make me more productive, not less).
True, notebooks have their issues but they can be fixed (I don't buy that "Jupyter is only for prototyping argument"). So, long story short, I started a project with a friend that makes us more productive by fixing the problems that notebooks' problems. https://github.com/ploomber/ploomber
A few years ago, I started working as a data scientist at a big financial firm and reviewed all workflow orchestrator available tools (including Kedro). I didn't like that all of them forced me to re-write my Jupyter code into their frameworks (they're supposed to make me more productive, not less).
True, notebooks have their issues but they can be fixed (I don't buy that "Jupyter is only for prototyping argument"). So, long story short, I started a project with a friend that makes us more productive by fixing the problems that notebooks' problems. https://github.com/ploomber/ploomber