[phatboyslim]

Technologists have a hard time accepting an established standard. Email is a perfect corollary to this conversation. There is a graveyard of companies that have attempted to "Solve email", yet it is still ubiquitous and attempts to 'improve' it continue to fizzle out. I'm not saying that progress, or an attempt at progress, is pointless, but to argue that writing vanilla SQL is somehow antiquated or archaic is false and OP makes several valid points highlighting why it is a perfectly valid approach.