Comment by thenaturalist

5 days ago

It hasn't evolved 'cause there is no free lunch.

It has evolved quite a bit behind the paywall - as has the paywall.

Most if not all of this stuff will land behind, not before said wall.

I guess if they integrate this then that will be the case, I'm not sure I'm convinced that much stuff is going on in dbt cloud that I can't do in dbt core.

A comparison that's obvious to my team is the release cadence of Metabase, which we also self-host. The frequent rollout of new features in Metabase is great and gives me more confidence in the product. But I'm not in the position to decide whether to cough up the $ for the paid version so I suppose it's moot.