After a deacade of using SQL it "clicked" for me

I think it's not the fact there are so many frameworks for SQL abstraction, it's just the whole "computer thing". Like, the programmers before you used punched cards, there after used pointers in C, there after the fancy started. So the same is for the inner workings, may be, of the computer itself? Nowadays, no one knows the turbo button and what it actually did then-a-days. ..And especially the database, which is actually just a bunch of files being put on a disc in-a-row so the head isn't needed to be moved for- and backward the disc to collect the defragmented data but instead find all in the neighborhood sectors. That's like with Socrates: 'The f*cking youth will be societies end' - no, the youth can use tools you can't, they use it to advance forward, my fried Socrates, to advance forward, my friend...!

I think the comment from cosmicradiance is more in the spirit of HN. I’m guessing I’m 10 years older than OP, and started devops when LAMP was king. It’s a lot less abstract when you actual install, configure and start the service, as opposed to occasionally opening MySQL Workbench to poke around when things don’t work.

Thank you for the feedback.

I went to school fifteen years ago and even then the focus was less on “computer science” and more on “software engineering”. I think, with the enormous rise in demand during the 2010s and the regression to the mean of the undergrads, many programs became almost like trade schools, more “software technician” than “engineer”.

My (weak) prediction is that if the decreased money in tech continues for several more years, coupled with the advent of AI, we’ll see a shift back to more rigorous courses.

Lol, you got me, it was only a minor is CS.