This feels especially true when you have access to things like BigQuery ML.
It's very easy for an average engineer (like me) to start using ML using these tools, but a lot harder to explain how it works, or exactly which type of models to use.
In my mind a DS would be really useful to just point us in the right direction and check work. Like a super specialist QA...
My Dad was too cheap for Encarta. We had a shareware version called something like Infopedia. I remember doing a homework project at a friend's house and being quite jealous of the proper version!
My last home was built about 5 years ago, and the house builder had fitted fibre ducting to the curb, but when OpenReach turned up they came with a ladder and slung up a copper cable.
Maybe on a massive development they will install brand new street cabinets, but anything smaller than a few hundred homes, copper is still the standard.
There are probably simpler ways - for example, if an accident report states there was only one person in the car, it was probably the driver using his phone.
It's very easy for an average engineer (like me) to start using ML using these tools, but a lot harder to explain how it works, or exactly which type of models to use.
In my mind a DS would be really useful to just point us in the right direction and check work. Like a super specialist QA...