Right there with you.

Developed my disdain after having to put up with the incredibly shitty behaviour from the sales and account teams a few years ago.

Sure they had some novelty years ago, but everyone and their dog has disaggregated compute these days, and all their other “feature” just feel like enterprise money extraction that they’ve acquihired in.

Expensive, slow, and painful.

If you're using Snowflake as an OLTP you're looking at the wrong technology anyway.

Can you go into more depth on this?

One good reason is that a huge population of companies just don't have enough data to justify Snowflake. We sell a product built on it, and I wish we'd had DuckDB 3-4 years ago; it's perfect for 95%+ of our clients

Just for the data sharing feature alone it's worth using. It's so damn easy to onboard and maintain data sources when they have a Snowflake share. You don't have to worry each day about loading processes randomly failing and you don't have to write any custom logic to hit APIs and properly flatten and merge responses into the database.