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I love the attitude towards ergonomics over standard compliance. And you'll see why SQL has never been really portable across databases ;-)

Maybe if SQL was a better language at the start, there would be more incentive to follow the spec.

SQL is an amazingly good language for what it does. It has been with us coming up on 5 decades.

Minus everyone having different versions of it to facilitate the missing functionality/needs of users

IIRC there was am ANSI/FIPS standard which was dropped under the bill clinton's administration, which is when things started to diverge.

(Info from memory, may be wrong or a bit mangled)

Well, it's not portable, but you don't have to learn a new language every time you encounter a new DBMS (unlike MongoDB or InfluxDB).