https://substack.timodechau.com/p/after-the-modern-data-stack-welcome is an interesting article

Q: Do you consider Meltano as the data platform described in the article?

In theory yes - pre-Meltano Cloud we were working towards that vision but didn’t quite pull it off. Meltano is squarely an EL tool today with some cool add-ons where you could drive your whole platform with it, but most don’t.