I agree that the experience of querying EAV databases using SQL can feel cumbers...

I agree that the experience of querying EAV databases using SQL can feel cumbersome [0]. But Datomic's dialect of Datalog [1] is a great fit for EAV and can produce much more readable and simpler queries.

[0] https://gist.github.com/grafikchaos/1b305a4e0b86c0a356de

[1] https://docs.datomic.com/on-prem/query.html