Comment by solidsnack9000

This may be the most practical way to make things better for developers, analysts, data scientists...

There have been so many attempts to alleviate the difficulty of writing SQL -- from ORMs, to alternate syntaxes, to alternate databases -- and none have been successful. The authors identify many reasons for this. The approach the authors have taken is incremental and makes only slight demands one people already familiar with elementary SQL -- and even people familiar with advanced SQL will likely find this approach to be easier to use for advanced queries.