Downside of all the ggplot-alikes in languages other than R is that they lose the enormous number of amazing add-on libraries[1] available for the original. Personally, where it's better I do a lot of data crunching in Python, then export to R and do all my graphics there. I feel like the statistics crowd just appreciates graphics more and has spent more time getting it perfect. Another plus is that Copilot really helps with R-based ggplot semantics and options because it's got so much to learn from. Not sure that would be true for the subtle differences in the ggplot clones.