> The project was pretty simple from data POV and we were mostly fetching lots of records to be processed and bulk updating a few "status" fields, Sounds like

> The project was pretty simple from data POV and we were mostly fetching lots of records to be processed and bulk updating a few "status" fields, Sounds like a perfect example for when you just want to whip up a few SQL queries, yes. I'm not against raw sql. I'm just against people presenting it as either/or and claiming that there is no gopd use case for ORMs.