Relevant reference I think you should include for your discussion: a summary of some especially pernicious silent bugs in scikit-learn that were deliberate design choices made by the library authors and whose bug impact was a consequence of opaque documentation or deceptive/non-obvious naming choices, in some cases even in spite of complaints about undesirable behavior by users. - https://www.reddit.com/r/statistics/comments/8de54s/is_r_better_than_python_at_anything_i_started/dxmnaef/?context=3

EDIT: also this - https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/aryjif/d_alternatives_to_scikitlearn/egrctzk/?context=3

like you say, "do not blindly trust the framework"

--- full disclosure: I wrote that under my old account. If you choose to add that comment as a reference, please attribute it to David Marx