I don't even understand your argument. This is all just buy vs build. Pay Fivetran, or pay an engineer to build and maintain API connections. Pay dbt or use db

I don't even understand your argument. This is all just buy vs build. Pay Fivetran, or pay an engineer to build and maintain API connections. Pay dbt or use dbt core and orchestrate it yourself. There are tons of observability tools, lineage tools etc that you can buy. Or build them yourself. Or use AWS or GCP and their broad tooling. You'll never convince me that having more options is bad.