> In no storage system do you ever get away from reasoning about this.

Agreed

> Second because SQL is actually a mediocre abstraction layer over your data storage.

This is fair but adding yet another layer only makes things worse

> I feel like you're just trotting out "reasons" out of a blog post

Rest assured that I haven't read a blog post or indeed anything on the topic; in fact I'm shockingly ignorant in general.