> As the team learned the hard way in the ramp-up to CockroachDB 1.0, many developers in the ecosystems that CockroachDB wants to enter do not write their own S

> As the team learned the hard way in the ramp-up to CockroachDB 1.0, many developers in the ecosystems that CockroachDB wants to enter do not write their own SQL queries any more—as opposed to, e.g., ten or twenty years ago. I cannot help but being saddened by this. It is really hard to understand how not knowing how to interface directly to the part of the system that holds the ultimate reason we write a program (handling data), and probably the performance bottleneck of that system when it scales, is beneficial to a professional developer.