What is the use of the Laravel query designer?

Question

I am studying the use of Laravel 5, but I am at the stage of building a query, and after looking at the first code snippets, I think it is really useless when someone has basic knowledge of SQL.

Example:

$users = DB::table('users')
->select(DB::raw('count(*) as user_count, status'))
->where('status', '<>', 1)
->groupBy('status')
->get();

What is the purpose of studying the syntax of a query builder if a programmer has at least basic knowledge of the SQL language? Moreover, moving extended queries from pure SQL to builder function queries looks like a nightmare ...

Answer 1

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