Title: Career Suicide? Moving from 40GB+ Model Optimization to Paginated Reports for a 40% hike

Summary

Hi everyone, looking for some blunt career perspective from fellow Power BI/Analysis Services pros. I am from India and all this is in INR. Current Role: I’m a Senior Data Lead (7 YOE) currently on 16.5L. My day-to-day is deep-level semantic modeling and performance tuning. I recently optimized a 40GB+ tabular model down to 20GB, achieving an 83% visual load time improvement (30s to 5s) using DAX Studio and heavy C# scripting in Tabular Editor. Tech stack is modern: VS Code, Git, GitHub Actio...