A) Any half-competent scientist is comfortable programming. B) Some programming is even required in a lot of undergrad business/MBA programs C) What the author really means by "MBA-types" are morons. So, yes there is a market for an user-friendly domain specific statistical language. It's called SAS. It's expensive. But it does the thinking for you...if you're a moron.

Also, none of this has anything to do with Python, which is an absolutely beautiful language.