I use something like Dapper on one of my services. I don’t consider it “throwing the baby out with the bath water”. My experience with ORMs is that they waste f

I use something like Dapper on one of my services. I don’t consider it “throwing the baby out with the bath water”. My experience with ORMs is that they waste far more time debugging odd behavior and working around quirks and poor generated queries than they save in coding effort. I’ve never felt that ORMs actually saves me that much effort except for the boilerplate of deserializing into objects. Everything else I feel is a net negative. Writing SQL generally isn’t that hard. For the cases where it is hard, ORM generally does a poor job anyway.