Funny enough, I had gone from ORM to SQL a couple years ago and now I've just recently gone back to ORM. For simple projects, raw SQL can be quite good. But onc

Funny enough, I had gone from ORM to SQL a couple years ago and now I've just recently gone back to ORM. For simple projects, raw SQL can be quite good. But once your model is complex enough that you're doing 3+ way joins relatively often, mapping the results manually by hand is very time consuming, and building an abstraction is really building the beginnings of your own crappy ORM.