Time spent on app middleware?

Taking an unscientific poll for a talk I'm doing on minimizing the glue code needed to send data from your app database to other databases and products, e.g. embedded charts,
departmental BI, company-wide reporting, master data hubs, data lake, etc.. The idea of the talk is to focus on one platform instead of stitching together many products.

What are guesses of the percentage of your or your team's time spent on 1) data pipelines to other databases and learning multiple products vs. 2) focusing on the biz logic and front-ends for new features?