How do you map rows to objects? How do you insert into/update rows in your databases? These are the basic problems ORMs solve splendidly. They are for OLTP workloads, and have deliberate escape hatches to SQL (or some abstraction over it, like JPQL in java-land).
I just fail to see what else would you do, besides implementing a bug-ridden, half-ORM yourself.
I just fail to see what else would you do, besides implementing a bug-ridden, half-ORM yourself.