[D] It’s 2026. Can we finally admit TensorFlow is the "COBOL of Machine Learning"?

We keep telling students to learn both, but let’s look at the actual landscape: Research: 95%+ of HuggingFace and arXiv is PyTorch. Innovation: Even Google's own researchers are using JAX more than TF. DX: Debugging a custom layer in TF still feels like a fever dream compared to PyTorch’s native Pyt