If using Python, then I think Peewee strikes a perfect balance. In my pov it rather helps writing and reason about queries, which in turn you can get as query+p

If using Python, then I think Peewee strikes a perfect balance. In my pov it rather helps writing and reason about queries, which in turn you can get as query+params to use in other places such as pandas. It is neither in the way nor magic bloat.