Yeah, just an example of a QoL issue with DuckDB: even though it can glob files in other cases, the way it passes parameters to GDAL means that globs are taken literally instead of expanded. So I can't query a directory with thirty million geojson files. This is not a problem in geopandas because ipython, being a full interactive development environment, allows me to produce the glob any way I choose.

I think this is a fundamental problem with the SQL pattern. You can try to make things just work, but when they fall then what?