Louis,

Views certainly help in managing complexity. They do nothing to improve
query-speed.

Querying a view gets rewritten to queries to the underlying tables on the
fly.
(as long as there are no materialized views, which are still on a the TODO
list)

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Let's set so double the killer delete select all.