"You don’t need to understand the math because the library authors did it for you." -- This is not how science works. Anyone calling themselves a data SCIENTIST should have a good understanding of the underlying mechanisms, i.e., the math behind the scenes.
I've written an article about this problem: https://thomas-baumgartner.medium.com/data-scientist-is-a-deeply-misunderstood-term-2d53ed97ef74