If you're writing a few hundred queries in a large appliaction, then that single extra method call will start to get awfully tedious to write over and over and

If you're writing a few hundred queries in a large appliaction, then that single extra method call will start to get awfully tedious to write over and over and over again. And talk about hurting readability, too... stream()! stream() everywhere! I'd say it's pretty significant.