Yes, this feels like it reinvents prepared statements in a less portable way. It kind of goes against the spirit of their opening justification for using it: "S

Yes, this feels like it reinvents prepared statements in a less portable way. It kind of goes against the spirit of their opening justification for using it: "SQL is code, you should be able to write it, version control it, comment it, and run it using files." If that's the goal encourage the use of a way to leverage native SQL that could run on any platform or engine.