Quick test: can you build a Power Automate Flow by writing its definition in your editor first?
If no, you are not doing source-centric ALM on Dataverse. You are doing environment-centric.
Source-centric needs three things:
1️⃣ source is the truth
2️⃣ the build is deterministic from source alone
3️⃣ deployment rebuilds any state from source
Dataverse fails the first one. Flows, model-driven apps, Canvas Apps, business rules all get authored in the maker portal. The unpacked files are downstream of an environment edit.
Strip the ceremony and you have environment-centric with a git layer for audit and deployment. Useful pattern. Not source-centric.
The labels matter because the ceremony you build on the wrong label costs engineering budget.
Wrote more on this in this week’s blog.