I read this piece and kept reading hoping that they would mention the real reason for this and it didn’t happen.

The vast majority of data scientists are terrible at their jobs. They lack fundamental skills on how to extract business value from data and share that value with the organization.

The fact of the matter is the majority of organizations don’t need FANG style data science with esoteric models and pipelines.

It’s very similar to the current software developer trend of over/pre optimizing or resume driven development that is ravaging the industry today.