Imho, transitioning from tidy to base R makes your code less readable than just using base R throughout.

If the tidyverse were forked and base R functions weren’t available then people would be forced to come up with a different solution and maybe they would stay committed to being tidy. I realize that probably won’t ever happen, there is too much work to reimplement all the missing base R functions.

IMO, R is kind of a syntactic Frankenstein otherwise.

Tidymodels also exists: https://www.tidymodels.org/