The actually story here is having the hubris to think you can build a good ORM (in Golang no less, lol) with a handful of engineers at a small company that's no

The actually story here is having the hubris to think you can build a good ORM (in Golang no less, lol) with a handful of engineers at a small company that's not even a technology company. How did this guy become a CTO again? Complete failure of leadership. Mature ORMs (that still often suck) are built by literally thousands of open-source contributors.