Migrating from dbt Cloud to using the free and open-source version of dbt-core and orchestrating it with Dagster is a viable alternative. Users can run their data pipelines in production on Dagster Cloud, which offers a curated onboarding experience for new users. The tool provides features such as automated data documentation sites, IDEs, scheduling, alerts, and unified stack integration. With Dagster, users can also create branch deployments for pull requests, test against production-scale data, and update their dbt docs on every deployment. Additionally, Dagster offers integrations with other modern data stack tools, making it a suitable solution for organizations looking to run the data transformation steps as part of a more fully-featured orchestrator.