The kind of person with the background to need these operations, and who is working on the kinds of problems where this stuff comes up, is more than capable of learning numpys syntax. Its not that bad. Avoiding the special purpose tools designed by and used by the people who work on these problems every day is the instinct of someone who has just started needing them and wants to solve new kinds of problems with the…
This is how terrible API's are kept in use, wasting professional's time and making the field way less accessible for newcomers.
Compare ggplot to matplotlib. They both serve the same purpose but one has an API you can actually reason about and use without needing to consult the documentation every five minutes.