> [Good DS] will often build these pipelines themselves. Bad DS thinks it is someone else’s job.
In a small environment, sure, do the job so it gets done! But in larger more corporate settings the 'cowboy' approach to pipeline building is not sustainable or even feasible. Am I a bad DS because I can't provision VMs, open firewalls, replicate production DBs and build hooks in other teams' services to expose data? No, its not my job. A good DS collaborates with other teams and sysadmins to build a pipeline that is maintainable and monitorable, and doesn't do it all themselves.