Honestly Google is probably the least bad option, they’re all gonna do what Google does with your data, and they’re a better cost per speed ratio. And frankly there are few companies worse than Comcast, I hate them so much.

Everything makes me angry but I’m working on it.

Not going out of style no, but not the new hotness.

I went through the same process myself a couple years ago, first PC build in a while. The biggest shock for me was finding out hard drives (SSD, HHD, etc) were outdated: its all about NVMe cards which look like a stick of RAM and plug directly on the motherboard.

I imagine it depends on use case. Anything more advanced that subqueries/CTEs is largely the domain of ETL developers (not exclusively, obviously) but most others using SQL don’t need anything that advanced.