alt Hacker News> Folks who dislike ORMs seem to have this false dichotomy that "the ORM _must_ be used for all queries", which is a self-imposed/unpractical restriction.
I've always heard a major selling point of ORMs is "You don't have to write the actual SQL anymore"
Because of that, I tend to not trust people who use ORMs to even know how to write queries by hand in the first place
You're right, that has been another "pro ORM" pitch that has gone awry and, taken to the extreme, is wrong imo.
My nuanced articulation is "you don't have to write the _boilerplate_ SQL for the 90% of just-do-some-CRUD endpoints in your enterprise SaaS application, but you 100% need to 'know SQL' for the last 5-10% of ~reporting/analytics queries that the ORM is going to mess up".