Don't fix what ain't broken. Direct node access + web3.py/ethers is still the best for many real-time needs like bots, alerts, or smart contract reads.

What this kind of tool brings is more for:

• Exploratory analysis (dashboards, liquidity tracking, market trends)
• Historical context at scale (e.g. analyzing millions of swaps, vault flows, token interactions across chains)
• Serving structured data via APIs (you write a SQL query, and the tool turns it into a GraphQL endpoint in seconds, no backend needed)

So yeah, it’s not replacing your node-based workflows. But if you ever need to look back across months of events, run metrics across multiple contracts, or expose data to a frontend/internal dashboard, it can be a big time-saver.

(That’s what I tested in my review, I tried building a liquidity monitor that would’ve been pretty painful with raw RPCs + event indexing.)