I also wrote a primer for why the world needs Materialize [1]. It had a big discussion on HN [2], and Materialize's cofounder said it was part of his motivation [3].

[1] https://medium.com/@lironshapira/data-denormalization-is-bro...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12613586

[3] https://twitter.com/narayanarjun/status/1241450203095465986