I am surprised by all the anti-ORM comments. When you use an ORM, you need to both know SQL and the ORM. Your investment in learning an ORM is not wasted and

I am surprised by all the anti-ORM comments. When you use an ORM, you need to both know SQL and the ORM. Your investment in learning an ORM is not wasted and you can carry that knowledge over from project to project. If you know both the ORM and SQL well, you can save a lot of time during development. I've been using NHibernate for over 10 years and now also getting into Entity Framework Core. I did see bad usage of ORMs and this was always caused by either a lack of SQL and database knowledge, or a lack of knowledge on how ORMs work.