[blakeburch]

Biggest factors in dbt adoption are:

- Automatic DAG generation based on dbt-QL declared dependencies.

- The structure of where (db/schema) and how (table/view/temporary) things are built is defined in a YAML configuration, not the individual SQL statements.

- Testing/documentation baked in.

Sure, you can manage every select statement as its own task, but it becomes pretty infeasible once things scale.

dbt can still be administered alongside all other E and L-type tasks. It's just a Python CLI wrapped around SQL SELECT statements.