Sometimes yes. And sometimes you have many other things to do and you want your database to just work. In this case it is perfectly fine to rely on ORM. It is

Sometimes yes. And sometimes you have many other things to do and you want your database to just work. In this case it is perfectly fine to rely on ORM. It is like C vs Python: yes, I know C pretty well. Yes, it is significantly faster. I am still going to write the project in Python.