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Why do people fear programming that much, so that even a simple SQL query is tried to be abstracted?

Same thing with visual "no code" programming. Is that really simpler to endlessly move around colorful blocks than writing a few lines in, say, Python?

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Yes? If you work with it every day you forget how obtuse and opaque programming can be. Most normal people barely understand basic consumer electronics.

Programming is like many things not an immensely difficult task, but it is one that requires knowledge and experience, so a true novice confronted with a SQL manual would not be able to quickly write the right code. Someone who's done programming before would have a much easier time.

It's not for programmers; think more of Siri/Alexa translating to SQL.

(I'm with you, I hate natural language interfaces too, but there we are.)

The programmer's equivalent is "what's the StackOverflow answer for how to do X with Y?". (e.g., Microsoft demonstrated some of their tech with a Stack Overflow Bot https://github.com/microsoft/BotFramework-Samples/tree/maste... -- idk if anyone actually uses it though).

Sure, I should do it the "go fast by going slow" way and spend time to read the manual and go through the tutorial. But often I'll want to know something which many people will have asked.

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