I'm not positive I see your complaint. Ecto is supposed to be exactly the translation layer between your business logic and your storage layout. Adding another

I'm not positive I see your complaint. Ecto is supposed to be exactly the translation layer between your business logic and your storage layout. Adding another translation layer on top of that just results in a half-baked implementation of half of Ecto. If your Ecto structs aren't useful throughout your application, then maybe you need to do a little more translating in the schema itself.