Having worked as an Enterprise Architect, DBA and Principal application developer, and commercial developer of enterprise-grade software I know firsthand the trap of "Application-centric" and "Data Model First" design. The way for modern information system design and implementation, hyper-automation, and intelligent software is to break free of the past and embrace ontology-first, ontology-driven software development to build knowledge-infused Graphs Data Systems ready-made for AI and intelligent workflow automation.