SQL is easy like solving differential equations is easy. If you know how, you just work througH it, but that’s only because you already learned all the prerequisites and then spend a year getting good at it. Anyways the point is that either way, you’ll never have an entire organization working at this level with SQL or solving equations and that’s fine. The CEO doesn’t need it, sales don’t need it. They do need numbers though, so having a dumbed down interface that can show some curves after clicking “net sales” and “country” let’s them move forwards with what matters to them, without having to learn the difference between an inner and outer join, which doesn’t matter to them.

Not everyone needs to be a programmer even if they do need the value typically buried in programmer interfaces.