> or any other "express-your-query-as-an-AST" approach Well SQL is just an AST abstraction, which was made to be human readable. And that's exactly the issue,

> or any other "express-your-query-as-an-AST" approach Well SQL is just an AST abstraction, which was made to be human readable. And that's exactly the issue, SQL is excellent for humans to express querys but really inconvenient to interface with other programs unless you express every single query ad-hoc (which seems the way most people choose since ORM tend to perform poorly)