> This would be horrendously difficult and error-prone writing plain SQL. I do it all the time :) I love looking at long SQL queries that are formatted nicely

> This would be horrendously difficult and error-prone writing plain SQL. I do it all the time :) I love looking at long SQL queries that are formatted nicely and use good naming conventions. It's also part of a more general philosophy I have of reducing dependencies whenever possible. With Django it makes sense to use the ORM wherever it suits you, since it's already built in, but there are times when you need to know raw SQL anyway (e.g. try populating a large database without COPY, only using the Django ORM).