What Snowflake gives you — and the practitioner layer it doesn’t capture
Snowflake gives you a lot. Centralized data, elastic compute, robust governance primitives, query history, fine-grained access controls. For most analytics teams, it’s the most operationally mature surface in their stack. If you’re running dbt on top of Snowflake, you have even more: a strong dependency graph across your transformations, model descriptions, owner tags, lineage in the dbt docs site. The combination is genuinely powerful. But there’s a layer above all of this that neither Snowflake