That doesn't explain why SPT is "better" for read only operations and CA for everything else.

>OK, I'll chime in, then.
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>I've been doing SPT for ten years now, and still do, for many things. Was using remote views as well, and also KrAkin dataclasses on a couple of projects. CA wins outright, simply because it has the level of automatic operation which surpasses that of remote views - the CA can do a lot of it for you - but it's automatic the only way I like it: you can override it anytime you want. And you actually can catch the SQL statements it sends, which you can't do with views. OTOH, it creates these statements for you, which with SPT you have to roll on your own. And it has all the hooks you may want to write.
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>For me, the CA is the best of both worlds, plus some.