But this seems to be a bit contradictory. Both facebook and you claim that prophet is a package to easily do better than other simple approaches, thus providing at least a good baseline for applied data people.
By contrast, the article suggests that prophet does badly in many common forecasting situations. So while prophet may do fine with piecewise linear seasonal data, it apparently is far from a good default.
There’s an inconsistency in the message here. Is prophet a tool for a very specific type of time series? Or, as the marketing claims go, is it a general easy to use default?
Much like facebook, you made both claims successively, which is I think the point of the article.
