Comment by parpfish

I think that engineers and analysts each have very different relationships with SQL.

When I was doing data science, all the other DS folks would be perfectly content to read and write queries that were hundreds of lines long. There were plenty of minor bits to pick, but it was a great lingua franca for describing data processing.

But engineers hate SQL because they generally only need a tiny little subset of the feature to enable transactional data updates. So they write an ORM to do the subset of SQL they need and never get the opportunity to be indoctrinated into the SQuLt