ORM is much easier when you know what is going on and can dove into a query plan. I have noticed most devs that struggle with ORM and or performance tend to jus

ORM is much easier when you know what is going on and can dove into a query plan. I have noticed most devs that struggle with ORM and or performance tend to just not understand basic RDBMS/SQL stuff. Indexes, joins, how to tell ORM to prefetch, reviewing query plans when the performance matters.