[nikki93]

I think DoD can be ergonomic, actually, if you're doing it just for the architecture reasons vs. the optimizations reasons, to the point that you choose DoD due to them. At least I personally have found that eg. an ECS architecture can lead to separations and structurings of logic code that were helpful, while still defining data in ways that I could just make accessible to tooling and so on.

In this talk on their architecture for Overwatch: https://youtu.be/W3aieHjyNvw (highly recommend) you can see that the wins / concerns they talk about have to do with architecture more than perf. Big insights at 8:00 in the video.