Look, honestly sometimes ORMs are very helpful for developers, especially when they're built directly into a framework (e.g., Django). They may be more useful i

Look, honestly sometimes ORMs are very helpful for developers, especially when they're built directly into a framework (e.g., Django). They may be more useful if the database itself had knowledge of what you're trying to do (hint, hint). If you're arguing that they will have necessarily worse performance characteristics, you're wrong. Source: I'm currently a SDE intern in the SQL Server team at Microsoft.