It just dawned to me, we turned an anti pattern into the current standard

I remember years ago the business side would ask for something and not understand why we can't just create a table to store the data. The problem was, who keeps it updated?

We completely flipped that with IaC and etc. now it's more about filling out those tables than traditional development. I remember when we noticed load a file to raw or wherever, id open the file to understand the data and use excel formulas to identify max length and other data types. It was just what we did. I haven't seen the speed increase yet but I'm brand new to this, I expect that to happen shortly. Currently it's "why do I by to memorize all this stuff and where itkves and how it's updated vs just doing the work.

Do any of those older style jobs still exist? I'm sure some small companies run that way but that's all moving over to contractors