It's insufficient to say that something is objectively better. Often times user preferences are multi-modal, and people cluster around groups. Pipe-based databa

It's insufficient to say that something is objectively better. Often times user preferences are multi-modal, and people cluster around groups. Pipe-based database query syntax may be objectively "easier" by some mathematical deduction, but by the laws of statistics > 50% of the userbase may prefer a different syntax.