It's all about people, not the ORMs or other technical inventions. Most shithead queries I encountered during years of DBAing were written by hand by poor folk

It's all about people, not the ORMs or other technical inventions. Most shithead queries I encountered during years of DBAing were written by hand by poor folks abandoned by their colleagues and over-confident managers. Just no one cared to educate them, but everyone expected "progress" from them. So they did what they could.. In fact I wished many times that they used some abstraction layer which would save them from doing such harm, simply because this layer would be written by more educated people.