Have you looked at Quel? We have multiple languages to run our code on generic CPUs (C, Python, Java, Ada, Go, Rust, Lisp, etc.) Why must we have only one database language that doesn't do a very good job at Codd's relational calculus?
So many people have drank the kool-aid that SQL is the answer. Maybe it's time to change this.
The success of ORM's could be thought as the market voting against SQL.
The blogspam post you linked has zero examples of QUEL. Looking at Wikipedia [0], it seems much uglier and less readable than SQL.
I am not a database theory person. I'm a developer who does not care about Codd's relational calculus. As for ORMs, they are great at solving simpler problems and CRUD data access, and they make the developer’s life easier by giving them nice objects to work with as opposed to raw database rows. However, any advanced analytics/reporting/summary queries tend to look awful with an ORM.
So many people have drank the kool-aid that SQL is the answer. Maybe it's time to change this.
The success of ORM's could be thought as the market voting against SQL.
https://www.holistics.io/blog/quel-vs-sql/