For the record, I do agree with your general sentiment that many of these abstraction layers are unnecessary, and in many ways harmful. Especially when it comes

For the record, I do agree with your general sentiment that many of these abstraction layers are unnecessary, and in many ways harmful. Especially when it comes to data integrity, trying to enforce constraints and triggers at the application level is always going to be clunky and error prone, and monolithic frameworks like Django and Rails actively encourage you to do everything at their level and give you many ways to shoot yourself in the foot. But I also don't think Hasura and Postgraphile and related projects are the silver bullet. Why can't we have something in the middle? How about a web framework that leaves data integrity up to the DB and just gives you an easy way to "glue" together bits of logic and queries, and do migrations, etc? Or even just use Django/Rails/whatever but don't use the footgun features? At least then, if/when you do need to scale (in any sense of the word) past what a relational DB can offer you, you can easily do that instead of trying to shoehorn everything into the DB. Aside: I'm working on a GraphQL library for Python that I hope will fulfill these goals, but development on it has stalled due to lack of time. Hopefully I can pick it up again soon. FUD may have been strong, but in general I detest when people decry entire categories of technology as being "wrong" or unfit in an absolute sense (or, conversely, tout a technology as a silver bullet), when in fact everything has its tradeoffs and there are good reasons to use almost anything. Understanding those tradeoffs is vastly more important than searching for the universal answer to everything. PS: Hope you're doing well! :) Your contact info isn't on HN, but email me if you want to get coffee/lunch sometime!