People have tried to port core R data science packages like dplyr to Python many times now and all that's happened is Python has fallen further behind.

It's not just a matter of manpower and funding, which Python has more of. Python is actually a less capable language in some important ways. It's not that expressive, and has basically no affordances for domain-specific languages.

I'll be happy when we have a successor language for R, but it won't be 2024 Python.