+1 to the siblings advocating for dropping down to Core. Additionally, in the rare cases that you need access to something that isn't available via Core's quer

+1 to the siblings advocating for dropping down to Core. Additionally, in the rare cases that you need access to something that isn't available via Core's query builder, you can drop down to bare nekkid text* queries and still cooperate with the rest of the framework. * while still relying on safe query parameterization, of course.