No idea what motivated the authors, but from my perspective, basically: yes. I've been working with ES for years now. the query language changes about twice pe

No idea what motivated the authors, but from my perspective, basically: yes. I've been working with ES for years now. the query language changes about twice per year, things which used to be the only way to do things become deprecated. (see: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-facets.html https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/curr... ) Even if you do understand 100% of the idiosyncrasies of elasticsearch, you still need to construct horrifically nested JSON to do meaningful queries... making it annoying to do in code, but mind wrenching to debug with curl.