SQLAlchemy is the library that convinced me, 8 or 9 years ago, to avoid using Python altogether.* Cold turkey, hard stop. Thank you for the motivation.
Not sure how they took something relatively straightforward - running database queries - and turned into such a convoluted mess.
*Python is still pretty good for data analysis, plotting, and scripting. But not for building actual applications.
I'm super excited to get rid of all of my workarounds that add or remove `+psycopg` from the URLs depending on what I'm giving it to.