This is a side effect of the extremism that happens in our industry. A decade and a half ago there was a hard push on ORMs, to the point that people would refus

This is a side effect of the extremism that happens in our industry. A decade and a half ago there was a hard push on ORMs, to the point that people would refuse to work on a code base that didn’t use one. So a lot of developers simply “grew up” not learning SQL (properly). We can easily enumerate dozens of other technologies that developers hard push on only to years later realize they’ve swung too far.