You basically pay databricks a “fee” to choose the more appropriate and modern stack for you to build on, and keep it up to date. Never used it, but it handles with lots of the administrative bs (compliance, SLAs, idk) for you so you can just ship.
sqlalchemy doesn’t really accepts strings - if you do, you need to pass them into a “conn.execute(text(…))”, so end users should not face a breaking change.