Not really a good practice using something like pandas in a task function is it?

I use Pandas all of the time in tasks and flows. for data wrangling...

We love pandas, totally fine to use it with Prefect. In fact, check out Fugue - just released a collection that makes it easy to work with daraframes across various frameworks pandas/Dask/Spark https://prefect-community.slack.com/archives/CKNSX5WG3/p1660241561151399