What's Wrong with DBI?

Nothing is "wrong" with DBI
It is fast
It is well designed
It works incredibly well
DBI is complex (many pages of docs)
There are lots of ways to do things
Which isn't surprising in Perl
DBI meets many different needs and is Generic
But we wanted to be specific
Something that understood MySQL
DBI leaves too much to the programmer
Code repetition can be high
Easy to make mistakes
We needed a specific generic solution
A simple solution (using the Python mindset)