I honestly find South to be the easiest and most efficient way to make model changes even on a solo project. The biggest upside to it is that it fully document

I honestly find South to be the easiest and most efficient way to make model changes even on a solo project. The biggest upside to it is that it fully documents all of your chances, and even allows rollbacks if necessary. Editing the database directly doesn't give you any kind of change log unless you do it manually, which is not really sustainable, even while working solo.