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In my experience, boilerplate sql isn’t even something I would consider a big pain point. The biggest challenge (to me) is explicit data contract enforcement across the stack.

I haven’t personally had third-party ORM frameworks succinctly encourage synchronization and help me build against long-term divergence of data models across the stack. “Make it easy to do the right thing and hard to do the wrong thing” still leaves a lot of room for ‘gotchas’ as apps evolve over time.

Finally, I don’t understand the aversion in learning even a bit of sql. As topics go, it’s a very good (maybe even the best, if I were being provocative) effort:payoff ratio. Not sure I’d call myself a sql expert, but am always pleasantly surprised how much functionality is within reach by knowing even the very basics of sql.