[strokirk]

It’s certainly not a feature. A lot of important SQL usage is ad-hoc queries, and they are more annoying to type than they should be.

[mulmen]

I don’t understand how changing the order of the clauses makes a query easier to type.

[spullara]

If you have auto-complete it can see what table you are using and complete the column names. Starting with SELECT it could be any column in the database.