It's not even that. Everytime I have to write an aggregation in Elasticsearch, I cringe. JSON is a terrible human format, and their annoying nested trees to do the simplest thing really suck to type out. I understand SQL doesn't cover everything a DB may expose, but then allow it for what it can do, or come up with nice syntax instead. Don't make me deal with your AST.
But guess what? The guys making $70k/year doing DB analysis and reporting who have little to no software development background can't. And they are the ones that live in the hell you've created.