Yes, one of the main goals of EdgeDB is to provide improved ergonomics and productivity through a modernized data model and query language. And do that without

Yes, one of the main goals of EdgeDB is to provide improved ergonomics and productivity through a modernized data model and query language. And do that without a significant performance cost. Lower performance in benchmarks is explained by an I/O bottleneck in the EdgeDB server, the queries are not less efficient. There will be performance improvements in subsequent releases.