I think often conversations about this are really people talking past each other. If you work in the enterprise, and spend tons of time dealing with 'business logic' and bespoke systems, using SQL seems preferable because many of your headaches come from systems being out of sync, or reports showing different values. Databases represent a way to guard against a lot of problems that tend to occur in that environment. It's only when you branch into other realms of development where it starts to feel really backwards and archaic.