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The way I think about this is that the old generation of DB tools make it possible for application developers to use databases. With Prisma we want to make it a delight.

There are an order of magnitude more application developers today than just 10 years ago. This enable us to invest much more in the tools we all use, resulting in higher quality and a much better experience.

So to turn it around - why _not_ build new and better tools?

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Because someone will build tools off yours and then someone will build tools off theirs. Abstractions on abstractions on abstractions.

I believe this is normally called innovation :-P

LPad was innovation too and that broke everything.

Was it though?

> Because someone will build tools off yours and then someone will build tools off theirs.

Is that supposed to be a reason against? Enabling further progress sounds more like a reason for, not a reason against.

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