I'd say Spring is kinda bad, but maybe not so much. But the JPQL and Hibernate parts are very bad and should be avoided for any serious work. Hibernate was made

I'd say Spring is kinda bad, but maybe not so much. But the JPQL and Hibernate parts are very bad and should be avoided for any serious work. Hibernate was made for a time with longer lived server-side objects, not today's workloads.