[naasking]

I disagree. I've used C#'s LINQ extensively, where the select is at the end and adding columns is trivial. It's a complete non-issue.

On the other hand having the select at the beginning has all kinds of problems for autocomplete, and syntactically obscures where you're selecting from and the clauses. I recommend you try LINQPad if you want experience with how much better this works:

https://www.linqpad.net/

> I've rarely ever touched filtering or aggregating lines in an exiting query unless requirements completely changed

Requirements change or bugs are discovered in the query. This is far more common than you imply.