Yeah, sure, you can always write raw SQL queries, but that has nothing to do with your ORM, does it? I was talking about ORMs in general, not about the program

Yeah, sure, you can always write raw SQL queries, but that has nothing to do with your ORM, does it? I was talking about ORMs in general, not about the programmer in particular. So yes, you are right that if you have enough engineering resources you can support everything. But most ORMs don't help you with this, so it is not a feature of ORMs. You can always bypass it though. The comparison with JS doesn't fit realy well, because JS is the tool you have to use. You don't have to use ORMs, plain SQL works fine as well.