I got started with ORMs before I knew any SQL, and I wish I had learned to just write SQL earlier in my coding career. I've spent way too many hours wrestling

I got started with ORMs before I knew any SQL, and I wish I had learned to just write SQL earlier in my coding career. I've spent way too many hours wrestling with ORMs that couldn't quite do some query I wanted to write. I think it would have been better to write some SQL and have people push back w/ a better way to write a query than to try & purge everything that looked like SQL from ORM queries. Having learned SQL has made life so much easier for me!