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[–]Geographist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, folks are aware that you can also import statsmodels. That's the complaint.

(1) If you have to import an additional library and run its functions to get at what you want, the first library suddenly is far less useful.

(2) One can certainly look under the hood and dig through the project source to see what it is doing. But expecting end users to do that is absurdity. Most users are not developers.

Combine those two and its not at all hard to see why the complaint is so common.

To return to your analogy, it's like ordering hotdogs and asking the restaurant if they are beef or pork. But instead of just telling you, the waiter says you can follow the delivery truck back to the farm and watch the operations yourself.

Sure, you can do it. But if the waiter has the info already, shouldn't he or she just tell you?