per debezium docs,

DATE

 , 

DATETIME

 types are converted into epoch milliseconds or microseconds based on the column’s precision. Is there already a request to convert these (now BIGINT) columns back to timestamp by default in the normalization step when using CDC?

yes, https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte/issues/4159

oh awesome thank you @[DEPRECATED] Marcos Marx