Comment by nzjrs

I think you just fundamentally misvalue what he is optimising for. It's live or die by alpha generation, and his tradeoffs are not HFT. There is going to be a whole other infra and opsec for executing the strategy.

Versioned dataframe native database hits perfectly for attracting productive quant researchers.

(Disclaimer, I'm also CTO of a quant fund and understand what he was optimising for)