> Whenever I read these sort of anti-ORM posts I wonder exactly how simple the data model of these people's software is that they would rather write SQL for eve

> Whenever I read these sort of anti-ORM posts I wonder exactly how simple the data model of these people's software is that they would rather write SQL for every trivial operation in their data model by hand than use abstraction layers that are nowadays well-established, mature, and far better tested than whatever ad-hoc intermediate layer people make by hand for their data models. I prefer SQL query builders--they remove the pain of writing raw SQL--without the complexity of an ORM. You simply compose your SQL query the way you would compose any other data structure, and for statically-typed languages, you get some compile-time validation via the type system.