I'd also add that "doesn't click” is sometimes confounded by a respect gradient. With SQL (also CSS) I've seen some people pick up an attitude that those aren't Serious Languages worthy of their time or respect where they avoid learning the fundamental concepts, have problems, and then say the language is too hard or old fashioned to use. I've seen people write many thousands of lines of Java because nobody pushed back on that mount of fragile code telling them “maybe you should take a day and really get up to speed with how SQL works”.