I don't know I personally find them quite useful and time saving, esp Eloquent ORM. I don't think I have written a direct sql query in a very long time unless i

I don't know I personally find them quite useful and time saving, esp Eloquent ORM. I don't think I have written a direct sql query in a very long time unless it's an exceptional case like below. But the best part is if I ever needed to, the ORM isn't stopping me.. like recently I wanted to `insert ignore` thousands of values in the table using a single sql query. Afaik that isn't supported by Eloquent so that I did using query. Rest the ORM is able to handle almost everything and keeps the code much more readable and easier to write.