Switched to Fivetran after experiences with Airbyte, operating Airbyte was extremely tedious, even primetime connectors had bugs that I personally had to fix, we keep Airbyte around for the "long tail" of SaaS tools that Fivetran doesn't have a connector for but managing an Airbyte deployment in a stable manner for the long term was not easy.

Hah. As if anyone listens to the concerns of Platform engineers. Product and data teams make their choices and we are left to pick up the pieces and glue them together into something passably functional.

We are self hosting. Don't think the cloud hosted version is being considered anymore now that I got something up and running.