For me it's the opposite and I highly disagree.

Valuable features such as this make working with markdown files much better. It's overall a huge plus for working with Obsidian. It does not change the content of the markdown files themselves, so there's no lock-in or other potentials long-term problems. It allows me to move further away from Notion, which is a great thing, and I hope to see them be able to fully replace Notion Databases in the future.

Plus the config for the individual bases is plain text, so in theory the queries could be read and run in other software too.