Constructing sql by concat strings has a few issues, its repetitive and hard to assemble certain queries conditionally, and at least in golang its easy to write code vulnerable to sql injection and you can avoid that by using types
sql == "INSERT INTO users (name,age) VALUES (?,?),(?,? + 5)"
That said, I will happily agree that that SQL statement composition is not the same as an ORM, and I can see the benefit of Squirrel for those rare times you do need to conditionally build SQL statements.
Constructing sql by concat strings has a few issues, its repetitive and hard to assemble certain queries conditionally, and at least in golang its easy to write code vulnerable to sql injection and you can avoid that by using types