[SmellTheGlove]

I was reading your comment and getting ready to tell you that I agreed, and that SQLAlchemy helps do pretty much what you're suggesting. Then I got to the bottom. Thanks for what you do!

But yeah, I might be missing something too, but by and large I've lived through a lot of code that depends on a specific database schema, rather than a domain model or some other abstraction. Even when database changes don't break things, there is so. much. regression. testing. before anyone is confident.