With the right vote he could be doing that in a few years too.

It never ceases to amaze me how far idiots will go to avoid learning the most simple things. SQL isn’t hard, people’s difficulty with it says a lot more about them than it does SQL.

It’s also wrong a lot. Hence the requirement for understanding. It can be helpful to get through a stretch but it will fuck up before too long and relying on it entirely is a bad idea.