Comment by roel_v

I get why people hate on ORM's, but let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater here - I don't want to go back to the time where you had to write object definitions for each table the database, and manually sync them. Nor do I want to manually write trivial 'select name from foo where id=1' queries all day, and do all the plumbing to execute it. So when hating on ORM's and unnecessary abstraction layers, please qualify that with 'ORM's should not try to be too smart' and 'ORM's should provide fall throughs into whatever they're abstracting for non-trivial use cases', and not give people the idea to ditch ORM's all together.