I think there's potential here, but the claims made in this article don't really hold for me. I have no idea why BQL would help facilitate communication betwee

I think there's potential here, but the claims made in this article don't really hold for me. I have no idea why BQL would help facilitate communication between domain experts, business analysts, and data scientists. The parallel to SQL is telling: Frankly, almost no domain experts waste their time on SQL and most business analysts have better tools suited for their common use cases. So why would these two groups get much out of BQL? Plus it's another thing for data scientists to learn? The three stakeholders mentioned in this article don't seem to really benefit from it. Why not just use R? It solves the problem of communication with non-technical stakeholders through tools like Markdown, knitr, shiny, etc. It has a relatively long history of use, a supportive community, it's super easy to look up how to do things, etc. I'm sure there are good reasons for BQL, but this article doesn't really summarize them.