I think you have not adequately asked yourself the question: "why does my database change so much?" and "why does this matter?", because in reality - for such projects as this tool is targeted, which I would mostly estimate is for quick prototyping needs, this is immensely useful.

Here, I see it looking a bit like this:

    $ make db
    $ make onboard_data
    $ make generate_rest
    $ make client_bindings
    $ make clients
    $ make tests && make release

I see nothing wrong with a properly managed project perpetuating this set of commands through multiple versions..