This just comes down to caring about the work you do and putting in the effort to ensure you are delivering quality/performant code. If your devs can't handle

This just comes down to caring about the work you do and putting in the effort to ensure you are delivering quality/performant code. If your devs can't handle that then you have a lot more problems than a heavyweight ORM. No developer worth their salt would be "encouraged" by a library to write bad code.