[acjohnson55]

As someone who just arrived in data world, I feel your pain.

You didn't even mention the data lake and the data warehouse are set for merger into the data lakehouse. Not to mention where data mesh and data fabric fit into all of this.

It's hard for me to say why this all seems so much more confusing than the software dev world. My guess is because data is a thing that a business accumulates and processes, often as a side channel to its actual work. There's an inherent meta-ness to it, and both the business and tech people have had a hand in shaping the approaches. So it's kind of a mess, and for whatever reason, even more susceptible to buzzwordery than the rest of tech.