I do expect this package to make connecting easier, but it was okay even before. ODBC connectivity via pyodbc has always worked quite well and it wasn't really any different when compared to any other ODBC source. I'm more on the data engineering side and I'm very picky about this kind of stuff, I don't expect the average user would even notice besides the initial pain of configuring ODBC from scratch.

IIRC, I had trouble if I installed the MS ODBC driver and some of the updates for Ubuntu (WSL) out of order. I generally prefer a language driver package where available.

Would be nice if MS and Deno could figure things out to get SQL working in Deno.