Comment by mikeklaas

I don't get it. Queries are a precise, textual specification of the data you need from a database. How can you hate that?

Perhaps what you mean is you hate dealing with converting the results to the data types you will use in your application?

Perhaps what you mean is you hate the administrative overhead of creating separate files and dealing with deployment when creating stored procedures?

Perhaps what you mean is you hate properly inserting your native data types into a written SQL query in a secure way?

Or do you actually hate writing SQL? To me, that's the best part of interacting with databases.