On the topic of data vs human judgement I think it has been proven time and time again that data will, if not outright win, have its place in any analysis. Humans have emotions, conscious / unconscious biases and can outright intentionally lie because of agendas. Data is never complete / rich enough to tell the whole story. So some tension here is good, but dismissing data with things like "lies, damned lies and statistics" as if that proved a point IMO is pretty idiotic. If you disagree with the data being shown, pointing out specifically why that is so instead of resorting to banalities.
What has specifically changed *now* is that we have data that's so much richer (and more useful) because of how computer vision, machine learning etc. are being applied to football analytics. For technical / data-sciency type folks I'd highly recommend checking out the statsbomb channel.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmZ2ArreL9muPvH49Gaw0Bw/videos
Press resistant midfielder analysis:
https://statsbomb.com/2021/02/statsbomb-data-case-studies-actions-under-pressure/
Pressing styles as viewed through data:
Liverpool and Google Deep Mind (of AlphaGo fame) recently published a paper with some specifics
I think it's inevitable that the data revolution is coming to football. There are people and clubs that accept it that'll move ahead of the pack and others that don't but will eventually be forced to.