I also use Pandas very infrequently (it has been years). Usually, for data analysis, I'm reaching for R + tidyverse/data.table/arrow. I have found Python and Pandas to be inelegant and verbose for these tasks.

As of last week, I have a need to process tabular data in Python. I started working with polars on Friday, and I have an analysis running across 16 nodes today. I find it very intuitive.