That's a common pitfall with ORMs and dumb stacks like Spring data: they're made for unexperienced developers who can't be bothered to understand other technolo

That's a common pitfall with ORMs and dumb stacks like Spring data: they're made for unexperienced developers who can't be bothered to understand other technology than their favourite programming language. When it comes to databases however, SQL is the standard, is already at a higher level of abstraction than a primitive record-like abstraction build on top of it, and direct SQL access will be required for any meaningful data manipulation at scale, for locking, for schema evolution, BI, etc. anyway.