SQL is easy
If it was that easy you wouldn't have a tradition of devs trying for any alternative.
There's obviously a use case for this sort of product, objections appealing to the ease of use of any technical language or toolset are unlikely to be convincing to the majority who are not comfortable with it.
The history of programming is devs frustrated at arbitrary limitations of syntax or modelling and forming new ones, with their own arbitrary limitations of syntax or modelling.
When your only tool is a FOR loop hammer, every set based operation frustratingly looks less like a nail than a screw.
Neither can humans. We also just brute force "autocompletion" with our learned knowledge and combine it to new parts, which we then add to our learned knowledge to deepen the process. We are just much, much better at this than AI, after some decades of training.
And I'm not saying that AI is fully there yet and has solved "thinking". IMHO it's more "pre-thinking" or proto-intelligence.. The picture is there, but the dots are not merging yet to form the real picture.
> It does not actually add 1+2 when you ask it to do so. it does not distinguish 1 from 2 as discrete units in an addition operation.
Neither can a toddler nor an animal. The level of ability is irrelevant for evaluating its foundation.
Its foundation of rational logical thought that can't process basic math? Even a toddler understands 2 is more than 1.