Replace ORM in your argument with C and SQL with assembler. Just like high level languages it's an abstraction layer and it can really help you put stuff like c

Replace ORM in your argument with C and SQL with assembler. Just like high level languages it's an abstraction layer and it can really help you put stuff like caching, escaping (think SQL injections) into once place. Also it's much easier to change a function name in your abstraction layer, then to change your database schema.