I broadly agree, although: ORMs have problems, but some are good enough and widely used enough that you might be able to take them from project to project (e.g

I broadly agree, although: ORMs have problems, but some are good enough and widely used enough that you might be able to take them from project to project (e.g. Rails’ ActiveRecord). SQL is good, but it can get tedious to intermingle fully ‘raw’ SQL with other languages. There are some good non-ORM database libraries whose features go beyond this (I develop one called Zapatos for Postgres/TypeScript).