Yes! It first felt counterintuitive and constraining to prepare data ahead of time, rather than just loading whatever you want on the fly. But we’ve found this to be a great discipline in practice because it forces you to think about what data you actually need to show, and to shift as much of the compute to build time to reduce file sizes (through aggregation and filtering) and accelerate page load. And once you become accustomed to instant dashboards it becomes unthinkable to go back to slow queries.