This whole essay feels like a strawman. "All [databases] do is push and pull bytes from the disk, right?" Has any working programmer ever thought that? I'm a b

This whole essay feels like a strawman. "All [databases] do is push and pull bytes from the disk, right?" Has any working programmer ever thought that? I'm a blub programmer, but I've used a number of languages over the years - and not sequentially, either, so I don't think my observations are due to a changing overall experience level - and in my experience, it's unambiguously a lot easier to be productive in some languages than in others. Missing from the author's initial analogy - "Give an experienced cook a dull knife. The blade slips and he cuts himself" - is the fact that an experienced cook will know the blade is dull and respond accordingly.