I agree. Don’t know why you’ve been downvoted. Your experience directly mirrors mine. What I did find interesting was the pushback I got from my team when I to

I agree. Don’t know why you’ve been downvoted. Your experience directly mirrors mine. What I did find interesting was the pushback I got from my team when I told them that I wanted to drop the Java ORM (JPA). One guy, who I respect, was super critical of the decision. He was telling me that SQL was the reason we had a performance problem, but when I investigated I was astounded by how fast SQL was, even over JDBC. It was clearly the ORM that was slowing us down. In his defence, when I was able to show him literally 100x performance improvement after moving a service to PL/PGSQL and MyBatis (Java), he changed his mind.