The author seems to think that Dagster or Prefect will take over Airflow, I don't think this is true. All of them being open source means that if one has a good idea or better way of doing something the other can quickly implement the feature and even use the some of same code. We saw it with Airflow implementing the TaskFlow API as a response to Dagster, and in a few weeks Airflow 2.4 is going to have dataset scheduling released.
So, Airflow's head start is going to be extremely hard to over come, if they remain adaptable.
Also, as other's have mentioned the comparison to MWAA is unfair, the true own of Airflow is Astronomer as they have over 50% of the commits to Airflow, and Astronomer is a much better product the MWAA.
Also, as other's have mentioned the comparison to MWAA is unfair, the true own of Airflow is Astronomer as they have over 50% of the commits to Airflow, and Astronomer is a much better product the MWAA.