The ecosystem of tools and learning resources around SQL is so large that I think generally any FancyQL is a liability. It would need to bring a 10x improvement

The ecosystem of tools and learning resources around SQL is so large that I think generally any FancyQL is a liability. It would need to bring a 10x improvement over SQL and that is hard to believe. However, I’d have said the same about JS a few years ago, and now we have TypeScript. Perhaps a language that is a strict superset of SQL and that compiles to SQL might be something worth trying.