I use it quite heavily at my day job. The core pieces of kedro are indispensable on large projects (Pipeline, Catalog, DataSets, Runner, hooks). The marketing has a lot of focus on the template, It's a great template, but not the key feature that brings me back to it. Really like that I never have to worry about io, the catalog abstracts this away. I don't worry about long runs to get started with my work. It saves all intermediate steps automatically, and the Pipeline (DAG) lets me run just the parts that I need for my task. Before using kedro I would need to scaffold out a way to save all of these intermediate steps, or suffer from long run times to get started on my task. Lastly the DAG is indispensible during environment migrations, it can quickly tell me all of its edges that I need to be concerned with picking up and moving with me.

Unlike similar projects kedro is just a python framework. It lets me build, deploy, and orchestrate however works best for my team.