I feel this, sort of. I taught myself how to code by writing a Python bot (among other things), and eventually needed some sort of database handling to make things work. I decided on teaching myself basic SQLite, and just did it raw with `sqlite3`.

Currently 50% of my anxiety when it comes to my bot is related to database matters. There's no type checking so I gotta be careful when writing them, and stuff might blow up weirdly at runtime. Refactoring tables is also a major pain, or at least was until I (sort of) figured out a 'routine' of how to do it.

It's doable, and I assume that teaching myself some basic SQL and using it in production was a great learning experience, but once I'd reached the point where I was inventing database migration tooling from first principles and considering how to implement that, I realized that I probably just want to look at SQLAlchemy again.

Indeed. So much more than this simple example. It gets interesting for more advanced use cases. If i now rename a field on the model, it will not be renamed in the database. If i want that to match, i have to change the query. And make a migration. But that is probably another simple blog post.

Putting it all together is another blog post. And if you have colleagues: probably needs documentation. Which you also have to maintain yourself.