As someone from the analytics side who's been working with SQL for 30 years (First Choice, remember that?) (but who also wrote a fair share of ORM boilerplate),

As someone from the analytics side who's been working with SQL for 30 years (First Choice, remember that?) (but who also wrote a fair share of ORM boilerplate), I find these debates fascinating .. but also kind of trivial, in the sense that SQL has a lot of other pros and cons that app devs rarely consider. Truly it is blind men evaluating an elephant. Given SQL's roots as a human-friendly declarative interface, the only thing I see completely replacing it in the near future is a Copilot-style neural implant where you just think of the results you want.