https://practicaldatamodeling.substack.com/p/the-organizational-crisis-in-data
The Organizational Crisis in Data Modeling: Why 89% of Engineers Are Struggling
Joe Reis
Feb 20, 2026
"Ad-hoc modelers fight fires at twice the rate as teams using semantic models.... This is the cost of skipping data modeling. You save time upfront. You pay for it later in the form of incidents, confusion, and rework."