We have Stockholm Syndrome because we don't have modern languages to replace it. (except ORMs, which address some issues, but not the big relational ideas) No

We have Stockholm Syndrome because we don't have modern languages to replace it. (except ORMs, which address some issues, but not the big relational ideas) No one thinks SQL is the best possible way to write a query. It takes challenging but elegant ideas about sets, and express them in a language that demos well in the shop window, but obfuscates and interferes in non-toy queries.