My suggestion would be that, whatever you end up doing, it needs to be what you want to do. Remember also that all roads in this business lead to the data. You need to know about the data and how it's stored and how to manipulate it using the language of data (T-SQL) or end up like the poor fellow in the following post...
https://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/1912521/Date-showing-instead-of-blank-result
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.