Speaking as someone for whom statistical software puts food on my table, one of my favorite statements about data science is (roughly speaking) "If you don't have data, are you really a scientist?"
I would completely agree with your point about technology supporting more advanced analysis: Current information processing capabilities allow us to ask new questions from higher volumes of data than was possible in the past.
"data scientist" sounds much more interesting and succinct than "scientist who transform and analyzes data which can only be transformed and analyzed by computational means".
I would completely agree with your point about technology supporting more advanced analysis: Current information processing capabilities allow us to ask new questions from higher volumes of data than was possible in the past.