I'm kind of wondering, what next? An optimizer? I think there's a lack of clarity on what's being reinvented here, why, and where this is all headed. And when

I'm kind of wondering, what next? An optimizer? I think there's a lack of clarity on what's being reinvented here, why, and where this is all headed. And when we get there, is it really something fundamentally new, or is it something that existing SQL products can absorb along the way?