I have my own views on this but I basically agree with everything you said. I think ORM is a great way to translate tables into real objects that have their ow

I have my own views on this but I basically agree with everything you said. I think ORM is a great way to translate tables into real objects that have their own methods and properties that may or may not interact with the DB. I think that's where the real power is. But for performance-necessary actions, yeah, SQL all the way (or rather a query builder).