[jjfoooo4]

This is a kind of poor engineering writing in which the author finds a product to not be tailored to his precise tastes and concludes it is because the company is user hostile and/or doomed.

The bit about Snowflake not being incentivized to care about costs are trivially untrue. The rest of the article perceives trade offs as simple feature gaps.

For example, Snowflake gives the user more latitude to distribute workloads among “warehouses” than other offerings. With poor distribution the author will experience the workload provisioning issues he describes.