[dkdcio]

I think this criticism is missing the order of magnitude aspect -- I agree, people do not choose the most technically pure option. But one that launches on day 1 that can be used in SQL or Python with a few lines of code, across any cloud provider, and it basically "just works" is an order of magnitude or more simple than using Iceberg, at least in my experience in Python. It's always been odd how every non-JVM client for Iceberg has supported reads, but never writes...

People don't choose on tech on technical purity, but they often chose on simplicity & ease of use

[lsuresh]

Yeah that's been our biggest issue in this ecosystem (the non-JVM clients). They can't do writes and are often far behind on feature parity with the blessed JVM clients.