> dbt is not elaborately modeled at all This doesn't make any sense, or I'm guessing you've never actually used it. Modeling is something you can do with dbt,

> dbt is not elaborately modeled at all This doesn't make any sense, or I'm guessing you've never actually used it. Modeling is something you can do with dbt, not what dbt does (or is, or can be?). I've used it to create data marts and EDW's with hundreds of tables, no differently than I would have created a decade ago with other tools.