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As a huge fan of tidyverse, I have to agree. Tidy eval is anything but. However, once they get that right, then tidyverse is close to perfection I think the newish “interpolation” syntax with double braces {{ }} is getting there.
See, it's changed again! Damnit Hadley, why must you do this to me? (Really I'm bitter because I know that I'll end up maintaining a bunch of important code in version N-2 of Hadley's NSE adventures at some point in the future).
Changed, yes, and finally in the right direction I would say!