Very well-written and thoughtful. Yes, on your case there's hardly any reason to use an ORM. I have worked with Symfony but these days it is always .Net Core

Very well-written and thoughtful. Yes, on your case there's hardly any reason to use an ORM. I have worked with Symfony but these days it is always .Net Core or Java it seems and I can live with that (thankfully none of the clients I work for use Javascript or on the backend. One used Python with plain SQL and secrets stored in the application code though :-)