This is an issue to collect feedback on the decision to make PyArrow a required dependency and to infer strings as PyArrow backed strings by default. The background for this decision can be found here: https://pandas.pydata.org/pdeps/0010-required-pyarrow-dependency.html If you would like to filter this warning without installing pyarrow at this time, please view this comment: https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/54466#issuecomment-1919988166