Comment by throwaway7783

My issue with DBT is it is a mix of SQL, yaml, jinja2 flow controls (and metrics is whole another thing). SQL with jinja2 if/else can get really unmaintainable quickly. It's perhaps better than homegrown sql based transformers.

polars is code and can be version controlled too. Dataframes in my opinion are more elegant, and with the right backends and some lineage enhancements, could serve a much wider set of use cases than what DBT does