I agree, I was once the on the implementation side of this. It was lovely. All day writing pure, terse, bug-free logic. Until that utopia started to itch...

But the experience helped me to look for the SQL patterns in the logic of the codebase I am working with.

Often there is very little. Mostly meaning that the rest is just an annoying heap of plumbing. It is not like I can magically make it go away, but it still seems unnecessary to me.