I worked in a job a decade back where I was the only tech guy and had a special 128 GB RAM machine. All the 'Big data' for the team was done by me using R tidyverse, data.table and few libraries and they thought of it as magic as there were few tech people there.

Still feel a lot of enterprises and industries looked over its capabilities then.

With LLMs the challenge of R syntax is a little easier for data analysts to climb, especially the new ones.