I would love if base SQL were improved. On the other hand, we are just slapping lipstick on a pig. It is already a gargantuan mess which needs a path to replace

I would love if base SQL were improved. On the other hand, we are just slapping lipstick on a pig. It is already a gargantuan mess which needs a path to replacement. Then again, Oracle just this year added support for booleans, so asking the incumbents to switch to a new query language seems an impossible ask.