My post is provocative and not explaining, true. However, your comparison does not make sense. JOOQ and similar libraries don't make you write SQL, even if the

My post is provocative and not explaining, true. However, your comparison does not make sense. JOOQ and similar libraries don't make you write SQL, even if their API is closer to SQL than what most ORMs do. If you replace "ORM" in your example with NoSQL or some other technology that directly competes with SQL then it would make sense.