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SQL has some annoying quirks but on balance I am not sure there is the distaste for SQL that you claim. It's fine, even good in many circumstances, but also too low level for some tasks which pushes common problems onto application developers to solve over and over again or build up layers of dependencies to utilize someone else's solution. That's not the fault of SQL but the fault of the RDBMS.

Our layers of abstractions atop SQL along with approaches taken by DBMSes outside of the common relational names have shown that there is room for improvement within those tasks, able to be done natively by the DBMS, and it does not have to come at the expense of losing SQL when you need to be able to describe lower level questions. Different tools for different jobs, but little will within the RDMBS space to explore those other tools.