Really interesting response. While there's absolutely much to love about Kedro (we spoke to the core dev team - they're a fantastic bunch), we created Orchest to counter the cons you mentioned.

https://github.com/orchest/orchest

What do you think of Orchest? Given your unique perspective we'd love to hear what you think of it.

We've been having success with agencies, especially when the hand-off needs to be something the clients can easily run with.