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Yeah the alternative would be to rely on POS software, which must be insanely frustrating to a dev.
I'm thankful I don't do software dev (I did two years as a working student, that was enough), but working in Data Engineering / Analytics* doesn't make things better. I'll overengineer the database, ETL and reporting, define a dozen measures I'll never use, prepare a dozen ways to slice and view the data I'll never look at and build a whole data warehouse I'll never look at.
Eventually I remember that it exists, realise that I've answered all my questions by directly querying the database, except for "What am I running out of?", which I answer by looking in the cabinet because I never update my inventory anyway.
*I don't even know where the line is anymore and how much of my responsibilities is on either side of it
The acronym works both ways.