CQL to me is just another SQL dialect, databases all have different, incompatible dialects. And on top of that, it's not like SQL is a highly productive program

CQL to me is just another SQL dialect, databases all have different, incompatible dialects. And on top of that, it's not like SQL is a highly productive programming language anyway, it's a pretty hard to use language for anything that's even slightly more complicated. I don't really see where this x10-x100 more productiveness would come from compared to scylla APIs which are just another form of SQL dialect so it isn't that different. Sure I can't write e.g (recursive)CTEs or repeating events in Scylladb but then: do I really want them anyway? wouldn't it be better anyway if I write everything as a set of simple queries? Wouldn't it be better anyway if instead of an event on an interval in SQL, I'd just run a simple SQL query in a background thread from my application on an interval?