Perfect example of a bad api (I'm assuming that your experience of rarely needing \%attr is widespread.)

Maybe there is scope for the addition of a doBind() to the api that reverses the ordering of the last two parameters. Or just omits the second.

But named parameters would be no advantage:

$dbh->do( 
    sql => 'update some_table set some_column=?', 
    bind => [ $some_string ]
);
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