There are certainly valid syntatical criticisms you can have of SQL[1] but on the whole SQL is expressive and rather concise while being solid enough to remain the default expression language of choice for fifty years.

1. The order of the phrases, the lack of trailing commas, the fact that an awful organization controls the standards and gatekeeps them to a bizarre extent.

Seriously? I just had a Quick Look at the mongodb docs, but when I see that I’m glad to use SQL. All the brackets and dollar prefixed expressions make mongodb queries hard to read.