Strongly agree with this. So much so that I wrote a schema comparison tool that allows you to autogenerate migration scripts and explicitly test for correctnes

Strongly agree with this. So much so that I wrote a schema comparison tool that allows you to autogenerate migration scripts and explicitly test for correctness. Schemas are good, but the traditional tooling around changing them (rails/django migrations) is really bad. People inevitably cut corners because it's too hard to do things the right way.