I agree. There has never been anything in tidyverse I couldn't do in base R. Usually a lot cleaner in base R. People complain about plotting in base R, really? It is just a function call with supplied arguments. It is super straight forward. Follow the vignette.

People also saying python is better don't realize that R is basically like having pandas in the standard library. I don't think there is a better language for wrangling tabular data to be honest.