Hex is a highly flexible platform that can support various workflows up and down the data stack, including analytics engineering. The author shares their experience using Hex for developing transformations, which has led to increased efficiency, effectiveness, and clearer communication of their process to reviewers. Key features include automating common tasks in dataset exploration, non-linear development of transformations, parameterizing queries for investigating anomalies, visualization for validating data explorations and transformations, and a single workspace for all work.