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why would it take you two weeks to write 10 SQL simple queries?

10 simple CRUDs you mean? With dynamic filters, admin UI, auth, tables, and so on? Because these frameworks allow you to do that in a single day.

i'm running out of ways to say that a CRUD endpoint should not have dynamism in the sense that you mean

/users/:id should map to 1 endpoint that's parameterized on userid

/search?userid=:userid&tag=:tag should map to 1 endpoint that's parameterized on userid and tag(s)

endpoints should be simple to write

You’ve never actually implemented a real world implementation, have you?

You’re going to have parameters that are compound. You’re going to end up filtering on objects 3 relations removed, or deal with nasty syncing of normalization. You’ll have endpoints with generic relations, like file uploads, where the parent isnt a foreign key.

It’s going to be a mess. They will NOT always be simple to write.

Yeah and programs should also be simple, but there would be no value to them that way.

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