Good point about the package management, but I disagree with your argument. Non-Computer Scientists seem to have a much easier time with Python than R, anecdotally.

I think the reason is that R is not just a badly designed language, but in particular its design is inconsistent. That’s as confusing to newcomers as it is to people who care about PL design.

I used R for almost a decade. Last year I switched to Python and Jupyter, never looked back. Can’t recommend the switch highly enough. R has great stats packages, but struggling with the language is just not worth it.