I agree, yeah, SQL syntax is awful. But the easier solution is what pretty much what backend has converged on, have something in your backend programming language that lowers to SQL so you never have to write any raw SQL at all except as a low-level escape hatch, so that in most instances SQL just becomes an IR that nobody really needs to think about in normal application code.

Are we really this devolved as coders? We can’t handle different syntaxes? We need LLMs to write queries? What the heck is going on with our industry?

Old man rant off.