Thanks very much, that was an excellent read.
Being a one man band now, i find i avoid the SQL Server tools.
I use power query instead of ssis and make tabular models in the data model.
I find myself having moved what i can to PowerBI, learning to transfer and bumping along as i go.
I haven't touched SSRS in a long time.
As a result I picked up just enough R to run ggplot2 & fooled around in shiny (no java needed) because of it!
But its a big pie 🙂
thanks again