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But this last year I've switched to python and just love it. I feel like I was walking around with my eyes closed before.
Is there ANY good reason to keep using R going forward?
AIUI, most professional statistics researchers use R, and as a result, the newest, latest & greatest statistical techniques and algorithms pretty much always get implemented in R before any other environment. So IF your use case involves needing to be very close to the bleeding edge of modern statistics research, then R could have a compelling advantage.
Otherwise, I guess it's down to personal preference. I dabble in both R and python, and neither strikes me as perfect. I go back and forth depending on what I'm doing.