Preserving column names and data types when setting up a new connection in Airbyte

But I don’t like the idea of doing a hack job

Keep in mind that airbyte has its own metadata columns and can’t operate off of fivetran metadata columns instead

So I’m not sure using fivetran metadata moving forward if you’re on airbyte makes much sense?

The columns for fivetran metadata aren’t going to be updated by airbyte so either way you are going to need to adopt the airbyte metadata, whether you use a view that abstracts it or update the queries directly