This type article of article has come up countless times before. Why not both? Using both, you let the ORM handle regular, boring CRUD, validation, repeatable e

This type article of article has come up countless times before. Why not both? Using both, you let the ORM handle regular, boring CRUD, validation, repeatable exercises, and write tricky joins, aggregates, function calls that ORMs don't do well in SQL. Every decent ORM supports dropping to SQL.