The integration became its own product
Most enterprises run separate tools for lineage, catalog, governance, and semantics. None of them share a metamodel.
So someone builds custom integration between them, and that integration acquires a backlog, an owner, and a maintenance cost of its own.
Every change in one system needs manual synchronization across the others. The team ends up maintaining plumbing while the estate drifts underneath it.
An assembled metadata solution carries this structurally. Tools that each own their own metadata will always need something in between them.
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