Hi,

Georg - one of the authors is here.

In fact, this is exactly what we argue: Keep data the consumer experience high a Paas platform (Fabric, BigLake, Databricks, SF, ...) can make a lot of sense, whereas for the best data development/creator experience a high-code solution based on solid software engineering best practices should be the preferred solution - at least in my/our(authors) opinion.

I already see companies with BigQuery setuped.

I would like to quickly grab some data, queries and dashboards and run them in my local warehouses.

If you use bigquery in big lake mode - i.e. with parquet or iceberg or delta files on GCS (or other object store) you can easily pull in the data into duckdb as well