Okay, how is my argument changed if I answer yes or no? Is what you're talking about a data sci's responsibility or not? If collecting, analyzing and deploying data in reports or db is too difficult for you, data sci isn't for you. I'm not telling them HOW to do their job. I'm clarifying that you have to DO the job if you signed up for it. Dont like it? Get out. We all screwed up by taking jobs we didnt like. Nothing wrong with that. Get out of the kitchen if you dont like the heat or the smell.

I'm curious about the relative experience you're talking from.

You're trying to make a point about the fact that you need to push the business and/or obtain data yourself, but I'm saying that can be a vastly more difficult problem than you think (or just flat impossible) at scale.

Why single data scientist should be responsible for obtaining data from 2000 stores? Data at scale requires people at scale. Data engineers would do this job.