And... a lot of awful boilerplate code too. Not to put too fine a point on it, but much of what I see people write in the effort to avoid using an ORM is insan

And... a lot of awful boilerplate code too. Not to put too fine a point on it, but much of what I see people write in the effort to avoid using an ORM is insanely poor, but they saved 2ms off of a report query that's run 3x per day. Nevermind that I can delete your entire database by modifying URL structure - ORMs are inefficient!