It badly needs grounding in some real examples. It reads like pure navel gazing academia, or expensive, gold plated consultancy.

I have never encountered a company that talks about their ontology.

You need the warehouse.

You can benefit from a semantic layer. Optional, but loads of examples in the wild.

Definitions in a semantic layer are absolutely an ontology of sorts. You should avoid working with people who let conceptual purity get in the way of practical results. Concepts and metaphors can guide your work and help with communication; pedantry drags it to a halt.

Treating your ontology as not just a useful concept but an actual product you spend time writing and maintaining? Outside of it being a word you could reasonably apply to tools such as data catalogs, my anecdata is that I have never heard of it in practice.

Btw, tropes.fyi/vetter says the article is sus. Perhaps LLM written. But I see no disclaimer.