A teammate says "Core Data is heavy and hard to understand, let's use SQLite directly (or GRDB)." What's the real difference between the two approaches?
Core Data gives you the object graph, change tracking, UI integration, and CloudKit, but the SQL and the performance are harder to control; raw SQLite or GRDB leaves the SQL and the query plan to you. Both sit on the same SQLite file.
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