The bad news is that anyone who has hitched their wagon to ES almost certainly has a bazillion lines of JSON query language for interacting with the thing (unle

The bad news is that anyone who has hitched their wagon to ES almost certainly has a bazillion lines of JSON query language for interacting with the thing (unless they stick strictly to the [query_string](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.7/query-dsl-query-string-query.html#query-string-syntax https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.7/...) search language, which I believe is lucene-compatible That's not even including the meta APIs like /_cat/indices and /_mappings et al that further lock one into ES-isms