[Centigonal]

Thank you! This definitely makes sense. The "emperor has no clothes"-ism around enterprise data platforms is definitely real. So is the trend of orgs building big, expensive platforms without thinking about who their end users are even supposed to be.

I actually think these are expressions of organizational dysfunction rather than something inherently wrong with data. It's the same way dysfunctional orgs might spend millions on SAFe adoption or prematurely spinning up a global sales motion - incentives and perceptions become misaligned with the reality of what the organization needs to do to succeed, the decisionmakers make bad capital outlays, and the implementers are left feeling like garbage working on a project that's doomed to fail.