I think you need to take a long hard look at the Venn diagram of the user base we are talking about.
People who haven’t even learned about Chesterton’s fence have no idea how much they don’t know about robust software.
People who haven’t even learned about Chesterton’s fence have no idea how much they don’t know about robust software.
That's only if you don't know how to properly code a data access layer in your application. And if you have many apps using the DB, perhaps the data layer should be in a library.