An ORM provides easy DB access and various implicit operations. The trade off is that if you don't know what you're doing, your app gonna have bad performance.

An ORM provides easy DB access and various implicit operations. The trade off is that if you don't know what you're doing, your app gonna have bad performance. Seems fair to me. Also, Django ORM documentation is very clear and you can use Django Debug Toolbar to analyse the raw sql generated.