"My team already knows Airflow and/or I want to pay Astronomer a lot of money" -> Airflow
"I love YAML and everything is on k8s anyway" -> Argo
"I just want something that works out of the box and don't want to host my own compute" -> Shipyard, maybe Orchest
"I want a more flexible, generic workflow engine and don't care about writing orchestration in Python" -> Temporal/Cadence
"I am very nostalgic" -> Azkaban, Oozie, Luigi
"I love clunky Java solutions to data problems" -> Nifi et al
"I like to pay for half-managed solutions and late upgrades to a first-generation technology" -> AWS/GCP hosted Airflow options
"I am on AWS and it doesn't need to be complicated" -> AWS Step Functions