Never trust a physicist on software. We have a special term at work, “Scientific Python”. When we say it to a physicist, they wear the hat proudly, but what we mean is “incomprehensible garbage that breaks as soon as you give it any input other than the one thing they tested it with”. If they want you to maintain it, the first step is to ask them to run it, look at whatever plot it generates, and write something from scratch that produces the same plot.

Kind of amazing how Bethesda manages to always be at least 5 years behind every other major developer on optimization. I recently picked up Fallout 4, my first attempt at the series, and I just completely lost interest, one of the main reasons being the absurd load times on a 7900xt.