Perhaps it’s not so much that the job is disappearing, as the title. In Knaflic’s excellent book Storytelling with Data she described how she got her start doing basic analysis, but she put in much more effort than her colleagues into visualizations and that effort was greatly appreciated.

When you get companies working on internal stuff, or even B2B products, you can get a lot of pushback hiring a “designer”. But if you hire a “data analyst” that spends most of their time doing visualizations for reports that person gets praised for their excellent work.

In my work dashboards are fine, but most of the data engineering, analysis, and visualization work we do goes into static reports. I find it frustrating that so much of tooling around BI is focused on dashboards.