Yep, I wanted to build it on top of SQLAlchemy to inherit all it's robustness and to be compatible with it, as it has the biggest widespread. SQLAlchemy now supports async too, so SQLModel inherits that as well.

And in particular, other libraries have done a great job, but I wanted to take advantage of the features that editors can provide, with autocompletion, inline errors, etc. SQLModel has lots of tricks to provide the best developer experience possible, e.g. autocompletion while creating a new model instance.

For example, the style of querying stuff, for example: https://sqlmodel.tiangolo.com/tutorial/where/#where-and-expr...