Yes. Active Record ORMs (Rails, Django, etc.) are a plague that teaches devs to pretend data engineering isn't important. IMO, the only valid use for them is s

Yes. Active Record ORMs (Rails, Django, etc.) are a plague that teaches devs to pretend data engineering isn't important. IMO, the only valid use for them is storing configuration that somehow can't be kept in memory after reading config files. Actual "data" (content) should be kept in stable, readable formats.